Microsoft's gift to Vista pirates: the Black Screen Of Darkness

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galson
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Post: #16

RE: Microsoft's gift to Vista pirates: the Black Screen Of Darkness

Ah yes, yes, what I meant is there's no Wine for Windows, unlike VMWare.

09-15-2007 12:43 PM

cliffy2000
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RE: Microsoft's gift to Vista pirates: the Black Screen Of Darkness

Actually -- I just googled this and it's not common knowledge, but it's an interesting tidbit -- there is a Windows port of Wine here. Apparently it's mainly used for running certain legacy programs that are no longer compatible with newer revisions of the OS. (Some NT and 3.1 programs.) Wine is neither an emulator nor a virtual machine and serves an entirely different purpose that is next-to-useless on Windows.

Generally speaking, of course, you're 100% right and I'm just nitpicking. VMWare is absolutely the way to go on Windows.

09-15-2007 05:44 PM

MiretanK
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RE: Microsoft's gift to Vista pirates: the Black Screen Of Darkness

And my VMware had BSOD while installing a XP virtual machine lol o_o

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