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Old Today, 03:30 PM ? #1

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LXer: How to install and run Microsoft Windows for free on Linux


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Microsoft offers free VMs for web browser testing purposes. This tutorial describes how to install Microsoft Windows as a guest VM on VirtualBox for free. If you wanted to run some native Windows applications on Linux platform, this tutorial should be helpful to you.

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Does M$ now distribute using RAR archives?

All the links are to third party site.

Use with caution...

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Old Today, 04:09 PM ? #3

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Yes they do distribute files for linux in RAR.

Astrogeek: You are incorrect. The links are microsoft owned. They are not third party.

Code:

ping az412801.vo.msecnd.net PING az412801.vo.msecnd.net (65.54.87.208) 56(84) bytes of data.

Code:

ARIN.NET:  NetRange	65.52.0.0 - 65.55.255.255 CIDR	65.52.0.0/14 Name	MICROSOFT-1BLK Handle	NET-65-52-0-0-1 Parent	NET65 (NET-65-0-0-0-0) Net Type	Direct Assignment Origin AS	 Organization	Microsoft Corp (MSFT) Registration Date	2001-02-14 Last Updated	2012-03-20
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I stand corrected! Thanks!

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According to the article, the free Windows VM will only run for 90 days. After it quits running, you won't be able to access any data in it.

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According to the article, the free Windows VM will only run for 90 days. After it quits running, you won't be able to access any data in it.

Yea, always a catch! Pretty useless overall.

But it made me grin - I only looked at the article because I have no M$ machines and every once in a while I think it would be interesting to run one in a VM just to see how the other side lives. So when I saw free version to run in a VM I took a look, but was happy to find there was so little interest in it that even no-cost was too expensive to look at. Then I saw 90 day expiration and realized I would probably still have to authenticate... click to next article...

It was nice to be reminded how good life is without them!


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