Vista Virtualisation Battered
February 26, 2007 by Jason
MICROSOFT HAS BEEN QUAKING in its big, furry, Volish boots over virtualisation, if this betanews.com article is to be believed. Supposedly, after some virtualisation doo-dads were toyed with to stick an active rootkit to a beta Vista kernal, Microsoft got so worried that it contemplated giving Vista virtualisation the boot.
As you may well be aware, virtualisation functions were left out of the Vista home editions. Betanews decided to chase up the Vole on this, and extracted the following from a Volish spinster: “Virtualization is a fairly new technology, and one that we think is not yet mature enough from a security perspective for broad consumer adoption.” Read More»
