[openbeos] Re: Speaking of Virtual PC 2007

Before Microsoft acquired them, Connectix (original developer of Virtual PC)
was working on a product called "Virtual Server". We all know it now by the
name of Microsoft Virtual Server. And while it too is now available for
free, I'm sure Microsoft makes their money back on all those Windows VDS
clients who require a Windows license for their virtual server. ;)

So in essence, they make their money not on the virtualization products but
on the Windows licenses users require to run Windows on said virtualization
products.


Regards,
Jonathon

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François Revol wrote:
> Hopefully they didn't already mess up the code they bought so it 
> doesn't yet contain the spywares they like us to run :)
> Hmm how do they make money from that if it's free (as in beer) ??
>
> François.
>
>   
Actually, I think they gave up on it as a product... If I remember 
correctly, they bought it shortly before Apple made the jump to Intel 
processors (officially at least), and I think they later realized they 
could just sell Windows to Mac users now, so there wasn't a lot of 
reasons to continue it as a potentially profitable product. (Though they 
obviously released the version for Windows which blows my theory out of 
the water.)

Raymond

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