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All I can say is go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/ and if they tell you you that you need Passport to get in, I'll gladly stand corrected. If you want to pony up the $99 to $2,799 to subscribe, the same applies but sorry I can't refund your money :-) I believe you do need Passport for the special subscriber downloads but I'm not that rich and the free stuff has always met my needs. I really don't need an early preview of Longhorn. I do have a Passport account. The last time I used it was to get into surprise, a Poser site hosted on MSN! Not to sound cavalier, but if they do get hacked, hackers are gonna get a lot less of my personal info from Passport than they can from PayPal, my bank, the DVD rental site, etc. Do I have any more faith in their security than Microsoft's, not really. I'm still not clear on the OS thing. You installed a retail boxed copy of Windows and Microsoft won't support it? If so you certainly have a right to complain. My point of confusion is the "it's oem you have to talk to the manufacturer" part. What's OEM, the machine, the DLL? If it's a third party DLL, of course Microsoft's not gonna help. If it's a Windows DLL and they're saying they won't support it somehow because of the hardware then that's BS and I agree that they screwed up. You've got me on the emulation thing. I only know that Penguinisto says that Poser works fine under Win4Lin (though with a memory limit of 128MB) and even renders faster than under Windows. Looking ate the CrossOver Office site, I see that Lightwave 8 installs and runs on their system. Moray, ZBrush 2 and Cinema 4D XL are listed as untested. Given VMWare's deep level of emulation, I'm kind of surprised that no 3D applications run in a virtual machine though I suspect that graphics would be a limiting factor. At any rate, emulation is only a bridge for those who deeply detest Microsoft (as you obviously seem to :-), until all of their software is liberated from Pharoah Gates' evil empire and emerges in the Promised Land of Mac, Linux or whatever's not Microsoft... Just kidding. The only connection I can find between BeOS and Apple is that it was created by Jean Louis Gass, former Apple guru and this, dated November 24, 2004: "BeOS continued investing a large portion of their talents and energies into BeOS for the PowerMac, hoping to be aquired by Apple, until December 1996 when Apple anounced that it would aquire NeXT and make OpenStep the basis of its next generation operating system. Be then set about porting their operating system for the third time to the Pentium. Despite these efforts, Be was never successful and eventually sold its assets to Palm, with whom Gass is a board member)." AFAIK, OS X is based NeXT OS (Mach kernel) but I'm certainly no font of information on things Apple.

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