A major fear of moving to a linux system is that you can't run your favorite apps. Apple says they fix this with Bootcamp, but that requires rebooting and doesn't actually fix anything because any computer can do that. We hope to fix this by using stream lined virtual machines, like those used by Windows 7 to run applications in XP Mode for the first year or so of Windows 7. That will allow native support for Windows applications to use 100% of Windows applications successfully, without rebooting, and while having a the core still be linux to give you better antivirus protection.
Microsoft though is very particular using their libraries, therefore this feature will only be available to people with valid Microsoft licenses. Without a valid license we will offer a Wine-like virtualization which doesn't have as good of support for all Windows' applications, but it does run Diablo II so you can't complain there.
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