No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners 198
Voyager529 writes "While virtually every Core 2 Duo processor supports the hardware virtualization technology that powers the Windows 7 XP Mode, The Register UK reports that the Core 2 Duo processors in the Sony Vaio Z series laptops had the virtualization features intentionally crippled in the BIOS. Senior manager for product marketing Xavier Lauwaert stated that the QA engineers did this to make the systems more resilient against malicious code. He also stated that while they are considering enabling VT in some laptop models due to the backlash, the Z series are not among those being retrofitted."
What? Malicious code?? (Score:5, Funny)
Senior manager for product marketing Xavier Lauwaert stated that the QA engineers did this to make the systems more resilient against malicious code.
If they don't like Windows XP they can say so. Calling it malicious code will piss off Microsoft no end.
CD rootkits (Score:2, Funny)
They probably want to protect their customers from Rootkits that some manufacturers put on their CDs: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/31/2016223
Pfft (Score:5, Funny)
::Sony BIOS SCREEN::
Virtualization: Disabled
Complimentary Rootkits: Enabled
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Sony has decided to disable the second core in many of its dual-core models. Senior douchebag Joe Schmo defended the decision, saying "Often the second core just allows people to run malware in the background without noticing it."
Um, no thanks, Sony. How about you let your customers decide whether they want to turn off processor features?
Re:Why does it matter what the BIOS supports? (Score:1, Funny)
modern OS
Hahahahaha yeah...
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What? Malicious code?? (Score:5, Funny)
But Lenovo allows you to re-enable it. sony simply has a "SUCKS TO BE YOU" sticker on it.
Re:What? Malicious code?? (Score:4, Funny)
My experience as a Sys Admin and doing IT house calls told me to avoid Sony computers like the plague, unless i wipe the OS and start again. i found their tweaks to cause all kinds of headaches.
sony made wrong decision (Score:4, Funny)
Virtual machines are a security feature. A VM establishes a security barrier around the OS> If you're infected, you just roll back the VM to the last snapshot and you're clean.
Security is like sex, once you're penetrated you're ****ed. Blocking useful security tools because they make it very slightly easier to hide after a successful penetration is asinine. And complaining about the cleanup cost? I normally reformat and reinstall after a virus is detected... and I've had to do that ONCE on any computer I've owned since 1986.
If people took some responsibility for their computers instead of depending on hacks like AV software to detect and clean up after they screw up, there wouldn't BE a virus problem.
As for your last line, "There is no real use of VT anyway since cores are now dual."... I have no idea what you mean by that, so here's a bunny with a pancake on its head [wordpress.com].
Re:It's Sony (Score:3, Funny)
I'm glad someone appreciates the information... I was modded overrated and redundant on every other post pointing this out. Seems someone is trying to keep this firmly pointed at Sony.
Perhaps... (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps there is already some hypervisor running that we don't know about?
As a Z owner who is planning on upgrading to Windows 7, this pisses me off. That machine was nearly as expensive as my mac... my mac!
It's worth noting that, scarily enough, it *was* still cheaper than my MBP, and the MBP has all sorts of issues running Windows. Sadly, the one ideal computer to run all OS's is actually three and a roll of duct tape.