[AccessD] Source control Access

John,

Is there any problem running Office 2010 under the 2011 WHS
And do you know if it is well behaved towards Windows 8 and Office 2013

JimB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Source control Access


> >do I have to rebuy licenses for software that will run under vm?
>
> The license says it can only run (or perhaps be installed) on a single 
> machine.  You have to meet that criteria.  If you have an old Access 97 
> hanging around that you no longer run and you install it on a VM, then no. 
> The OS for the VM however needs to be only running in one place as well.
>
> It appears that Windows Home Server is extremely cheap ATM.  I bought 5 
> copies of that for IIRC about $39 each and use that as the OS on the VM. 
> I couldn't touch that price for any other OS. But then I wasn't trying to 
> make a million variations of windows and office either.
>
> BTW all the license says is that it can't run at the same time. It is my 
> considerable lack of legal experience and my opinion that if you were to 
> (for example) buy Windows 2007, install it on a VM, then clone that VM, 
> then install Office 97 on one of them, Office 2000 on another, Office 2003 
> on another, Office 2007 on another etc etc., as long as you only ran one 
> of those test environments at a time... the OS is only running on a single 
> machine at a time.
>
> You are at least meeting the spirit of the law.
>
> Licensing for VMs is a mess.
>
> John W. Colby
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 3/17/2013 4:14 PM, William Benson wrote:
>> I sure wish I knew how to set up VMs and quesrion: do I have to rebuy
>> licenses for software that will run under vm?
>> On Mar 14, 2013 12:43 AM, "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
>>> When this happens I use a VM browser, turn of Viper, go to the site and
>> see
>>> what happens. Vipre is very aggressive in its protection and warnings.
>>> Sometimes it's a link or an ad that trigger these warnings.
>
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