:PRNewswire: VMware Signs OEM Agreement With Microsoft
PRNewswire: VMware Signs OEM Agreement With Microsoft Mar 29, 2000, 02 :09 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (10085 reads)
"VMware to Offer Microsoft Windows Operating Systems Pre-Installed In a
Virtual Machine."
"VMware, Inc..., the company that is changing the one OS, one machine PC
computing model, today announced an OEM agreement with Microsoft Corporation to
distribute Microsoft Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 with VMware
software. Later this year, VMware will add VMware Ready to Run to its list of
product offerings."
"'VMware Ready to Run will allow customers to run Microsoft Windows as an
additional operating system without any of the pain of an install,' notes Dave
Michaud, VMware Vice President of Marketing. 'For Linux users who want access
to Windows, this will mean a simpler out-of-box experience -- they can simply
copy the VMware Ready to Run file to their hard drive, and be up and running in
Windows 98, Windows NT, or Windows 2000 in a matter of minutes.'"
