Mac users will have to buy expensive Vista

MAGAZINES LOYAL to Jobs' Mob are claiming that Microsoft has hit them with a Vista Tax by insisting that users that want to run the operating system alongside the Mac OSX will have to pay for an expensive version of VoleWare.

Although we have been saying this for a while, it has taken a few months for the news to reach the Apple press who have been a tad busy processing Cappuccino press releases to notice.

Basically, because the cheaper versions of Vista (Home Basic and Home Premium) explicitly forbids the use of those versions on virtual machines, Apple users will have to buy the business version of the software.

The Apple press is hissing like a snake under a grill over what they are now calling an Microsoft's Vista tax on Mac users.

They say it is unfair that they will have to pay an extra $100 for simply being Mac users. While many might regard this as an anti-smug tax in the case of Apple, Microsoft's virtual machine policy also effects Linux and Unix users who want to use Vista in a virtual machine too.

Tech blorge.com reported that Ben Rudolph at Parallels, which makes an emulator for the Mac. Who it says is mightily miffed at Volish plotting.

Writing in his bog he said that that Microsoft's strategy could hold back users who embrace cutting-edge technologies like vitalisation, which means they won't upgrade to Vista.

He said that this will cost Microsoft custom or create an entirely new customer for Mac of Linux users.

Mac users are still fuming about the fact that Vole has no plans to release a version of Mac Office until 2008. They seem to be ignoring that Apple also failed to get iTunes ready for Vista on time and there has been still no release date announced.

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