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by Anonymous User on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 02:37:16 PM PDT

Just because Microsoft tells you not to, doesn't mean you can't. They aren't a duly constituted legislative body elected by the people, after all, and the "law" in question looks suspiciously unconstitutional to me anyway.

Regardless, how will they find out and prove you ran Vista on a virtual PC?

Not to mention the issue is moot anyway. If Vista flops half as badly as it looks like it will, M$ will have to support XP into the foreseeable future (or sunset it forcibly with WGA thereby triping Linux's market share overnight). People can then run virtual XPs on Linux for as long as they still need to run legacy 'doze apps.

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