Why use a virtual machine? **RESOLVED**

[Derek Broughton]

iodine at runbox.no wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> iodine at runbox.no wrote:
>> 
>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> The only thing I miss from Windows is Spider Solitaire, it was
>>>>>>> entertaining once in a while.
>>>>>> It's available in the KDE card games :) (KPath I seem to
>>>>>> remember?)
>>>> kpat
>>>>
>>>>> You all have forgotten that M$ now uses Windows Genuine Advantage,
>>>>> aka WGA, to
>>>> Only for Vista - and he didn't _have_ a license for that, he had an
>>>> XP license.
>>> WGA is implemented in XP also. It can be a major annoyance.
>> 
>> Nope.  I've never had a problem with it.
> 
> That's a very narrow point of view. It's like saying "I've never had
> a problem with my car, therefore there are no problems with cars".

No, it's like saying that if you actually had a valid license, the 
registration system on XP wasn't a "major annoyance".  The registration 
system on Vista really is.
-- 
derek