[AccessD] William Hindman (Re: Visual Basic 2008 Express&VB.NET)

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

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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
>> >> >>>
>> >> >
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