John Kerry would be proud with the buzz Microsoft Vista has created - you don’t know whether to love it, or hate it. Whether to buy it or bury it . Our readers are so smart that only 10% of them are willing to take a chance on it.
Nevertheless, if you wish to install Windows Vista on your Intel powered Mac, you need to spend a lot more money that regular people. Folks at the Parallels, the company that makes an awesome virtualization software of the same name dug into the Microsoft End User License Agreement (EULA) and realized that …
“only certain versions of Vista – Business and Ultimate (and Enterprise for corporate customers) are eligible to be run in a virtual machine. The EULA says that Home Basic and Home Premium CANNOT be run in a virtual machine.”
Now Mac users are used to overpaying for everything, but Windows Vista too! Ultimate costs $399 and the Business Vista is only slightly cheaper at $299. Well, maybe Bill has finally realized that Mac users want top of the line stuff. But seriously, looks like Microsoft is leaving money on the table. For Mac users, well another reason not to think about Vista.
PS: this is true of Parallels Workstation for PC as well.
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