Why use a virtual machine? **RESOLVED**

[iodine at runbox.no]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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".

I said "IT CAN BE". Please read more carefully. My XP licenses are all
valid, thank you very much. I haven't had any problems, but THESE people
sure did:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070825-windows-genuine-advantage-suffers-worldwide-outage-problems-galore.html

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Odd