Is it legal to run Windows and Office in a VM on a Linux machine?

Yes. Virtual machines are still machines. You need a valid license.

Yes, but the last I checked you need Software Assurance on a volume license agreement to run desktop Windows as a VM.

Which makes it retard-level expensive.

>>52209594
>Virtual machines are still machines. You need a valid license
>you need Software Assurance on a volume license agreement to run desktop Windows as a VM
>license
>windows
fucking kek

>>52209594
Yes. MS licenses are now cpu dependent because of hyper v and shit.

You can just download Libreoffice. It does everything that MS Office can do and more.

>>52209993
If only it were able to consistently open and save office documents without the make-up going completely down the drain.

If the UI didn't look like it was made in the 90s it might have gotten some traction.

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>>52209594
>janny

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>j

>>52210049
>If only it were able to consistently open and save office documents without the make-up going completely down the drain.

It can... If you open it in another Libreoffice or google docs or any other office application than MS Office then it's fine. It is MS office that mess up docs made in other Office packages, and that is likely done on purpose.
It's not Libreoffice's fault.

>>52210150
Open docx in writer. Save as docx.
Open in word, save again as docx, formatting still works in word. Open again in writer, looks like shit.

Sounds like you know the truth senpai.

>>52210372
That word intentionally obfuscates the format, like he said? That seems to be what you're saying.

>>52210372
This is exactly the situation he described.

>>52209594
Why'd he decide to lose weight when he's butt fuck 40 and loose?

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>>52209612
>you need a dedicated license to run an OS you already paid for in a VM
fuck
this is why we need free software

>>52209594
No. It's not legal.
Use libreoffice.

>>52210150
They don't do it on purpose - it's because of the massive amount of legacy overhead that Office products have. There's a blog somewhere from a high-up developer that worked on Office which talks about stuff like how they have two entire branches of the Excel file loader because of a decision they made about how dates were represented in the original version.

It's basically down more to incompetence than malice, but it's not even incompetence as much as fear of fielding the 8 million complaints from industry about their spreadsheet from 1993 they use for inventory not working anymore.

>>52210470
You can install it on one computer per license without VLA/SA
This includes virtual machines. This is in plain English since 8, but in legalese for who knows how long

>>52209594

David Mitchell is a posh twat

He reminds me of this kid from my school, who was also a posh twat