[openbeos] Re: Speaking of Virtual PC 2007
- From: Sikosis <sikosis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:43:31 +1000
On 8/22/07, Raymond C. Rodgers <obos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
We actually bought it at work (version 2004) and it actually runs BeOS
but really slow. It also ran Haiku, slow as well. Haven't tried 2007,
it's been sitting on my PC -- but you can also get VMware's Virtual
Server for free as well.
Cheers
Sikosis (Phil)
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