Thank you, Malke

The concept of VM frightens me off as another layer of software eating
computer resources. And I have to learn it too. Yet learning a general
concept like virtualisation is much more useful then wasting time on
proprietary VISTA pecularities.

I spoke only to HP, and contacted the others by email or by filling in a
form at their websites. No XP from either. That was last November. Perhaps
it changed recently.

I do not seek legal advise, I am just trying to stipp up users's rebellion
agains MS who twists our asms more and more tightly using their practically
monopoly position on the Market.

As in the US people win the most absurd cases against big boys, case agains
MS seems to be well justified. MS made huge contribution to the progress in
their early days but now they are staying in the way