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Virtual VISTA from VMware (08:18)

VMware has released a new virtual environment for VISTA which runs on Linux or Windows. While I see it as a way to run VISTA without the security issues of having a physical Microsoft deployment, I suspect that people will see it as a way to run VISTA on their old Windows machines without an upgrade to the hardware. I could be misreading the announcement.

This could be useful to Linux users who have the need to run some limited VISTA software, but who trust the native Linux firewalling capability more than the vendor VISTA firewall. The capability of 3rd parties firewalls and security software has been questioned, and some Microsoft features make the type of control over the network more difficult than it was with XP.

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