I am rating this editon more than the OS(which is only 3 stars!):
despite the license agreement(which is posted as a warning quite adequetly by Amazon and product company OEM sleeve, informing customers) this is essentially Windows XP full editon with only one difference, a slight rigidity to different configuatins beyond the retail. In the retail you have a marginal bit of difference in the tollerence of new components, namely a new hard disk in this you do not. otherwise, it works the same and can be installed on a partition numourous times(if it is the same... more info
Works well with VMware Fusion Mac:
I bought this because the Microsoft OS is not supported at all when used in virtual machines. I have never personally owned anything other than Macintosh, and built my own virtual machine using this version from Microsoft. I was concerned this version would not work, but it works well as a virtual machine under these circumstances. It is cheaper than buying the full version, and since I'm building my own system, it meets the terms of the End User Agreement.
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