[Bulk] [Dclug] Use OEM Winstallation from Linux

[Miguel González Castaños]

Tzadik Vanderhoof escribió:
> This Microsoft Tax discussion reminded me of a related problem... 
> Originally I wanted Dell to sell me a machine with no OS, but when 
> they refused, I figured that instead of wiping out the OS they made me 
> pay for anyway, I would just dual-boot.  Well, it turns out that 
> dual-booting has come in handy.  There have been a few times that I 
> needed to test a website under Internet Explorer or do something in 
> Microsoft Office that I just could not get to work in OpenOffice.  
> However, doing so is a real pain... I have to reboot every time I 
> switch the O.S.  Is there any way I can get VMware (or something else) 
> to let me use the OEM installation from Linux?
>
> Also, a related question... would having paid for that OEM Windows 
> also give someone the license to use Microsoft multimedia codecs on Linux?
wine, in fact there is a project called ie4l (internet explorer for 
linux) which uses wine to run IE for the purpose you mention

Miguel

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