I has a confession. [rant]

[LivePsy]

Timo, if you were an OS developer, which would you prefer: to own the hardware and write the OS to integrate with it, or write the OS and leave the hardware to someone else? I dunno which is better.

Personally, I'm surprised (but pleased) that Apple are still around. I also really like that OS X and Logic Studio don't require activation to run. I'm free to install on my hardware without concern that the software only runs if the manufacturer permits it. Virtualised Windows is a great idea because the image is portable. I use XP on the Mac inside Parallels so I can use Sound Forge along side Logic. It works quite well and I can always restore a backup of the virtualised image if I wish. I feel that is much safer than finding out that Microsoft, Sound Forge or Ableton Live don't want to activate on the PC. The difference is slim between software you rely on and dead files taking up disk space.

Cheers,
B