William Hindman
wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Sat Mar 14 23:24:46 CDT 2009
...yes ...but its pretty simple to do since you can copy to/from a local disk ...and the expiration dates have so far not been rigorously enforced ...the copy of xp/vista is pre-activated and won't run outside the vpc environment. William -------------------------------------------------- From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:36 PM To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 Express&VB.NET) > How do they renew. > > Do you have to download a new image and transfer all you settings/data > etc to the new one? > > -- > Stuart > > On 14 Mar 2009 at 21:28, William Hindman wrote: > >> ...yes but as I said previously, they've renewed it every time for more >> than >> a year now and almost certainly will continue to do so since you still >> can't >> install more than one version of ie. >> >> William >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> >> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:18 PM >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 >> Express&VB.NET) >> >> >>From that link: >> > "This VPC image will expire in April 2009." >> > >> > If you do want to use it however, note the following from VirtualBox >> > Help: >> > "Finally, VirtualBox also fully supports the VHD format used by >> > Microsoft" >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Stuart >> > >> > On 14 Mar 2009 at 20:10, William Hindman wrote: >> > >> >> ...been that way for more than a year ...there is a separate link to >> >> dl >> >> the >> >> right vhd >> >> >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en >> >> >> >> ...the secret to this is that ms is providing a vhd with win xp or >> >> vista >> >> AND >> >> ie6, 7, or 8 now to web developers to allow testing >> >> against multiple browser environments ...since you can't run more than >> >> one >> >> version of ie on the same system. they came >> >> up with this backdoor ...but the bottom line is that its a fully >> >> functional >> >> vhd with the os and ie already installed and you can use >> >> it for whatever you please ...and anyone can dl and use it if they >> >> know >> >> where to look. >> >> >> >> ...and of course ms isn't broadcasting this everywhere ...you only >> >> find >> >> it >> >> by looking for ways to test both versions of ie on your system :) >> >> ...not a word or link to this on either the vpc or their regular vhd >> >> site >> >> :) >> >> >> >> William >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> >> From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com> >> >> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:54 PM >> >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" >> >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 >> >> Express&VB.NET) >> >> >> >> > William, >> >> > >> >> > Interesting. Is that a recent promotion? When I downloaded VPC >> >> > last >> >> > year there wasn't any OS that came with it. >> >> > >> >> > Steve Erbach >> >> > Neenah, WI >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM, William Hindman >> >> > <wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote: >> >> >> ...its free ...and it comes with a vhd with win xp or vista already >> >> >> installed so you don't have to buy another copy ...the free os is a >> >> >> limited >> >> >> time but they've renewed it every time it was about to expire so >> >> >> far. >> >> >> >> >> >> William >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> From: "Max Wanadoo" <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> >> >> >> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:57 AM >> >> >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" >> >> >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >> >> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 >> >> >> Express&VB.NET) >> >> >> >> >> >>> William, >> >> >>> Is virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft free or not. The site says "free >> >> >>> download" >> >> >>> but it is unclear whether that means that after installing it, I >> >> >>> then >> >> >>> get >> >> >>> only xyz days to use it. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> If not free, what would you recommend? >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Thanks >> >> >>> Max >> >> >>> >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > AccessD mailing list >> >> > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> >> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> >> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> AccessD mailing list >> >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >> > >> > -- >> > AccessD mailing list >> > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >