Working directly from .iso file

This past week, I had to opportunity to install Office 2008 on a Macintosh.
The installation kit had an extention of .drm (i think) and basically
produced an .iso file. A utility on the Mac then read the .iso file and
installed Office 2008.

Is there such a utility (I like the free kind) that will do the same on
Windows, both XP and Vista, treat an .iso file as if it were the actual
CD/DVD rather than having to first burn a CD or DVD?

thanks,
~alan

~~Alan~~ <a.shepro-> wrote:
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> This past week, I had to opportunity to install Office 2008 on a
> Macintosh. The installation kit had an extention of .drm (i think) and
> basically produced an .iso file. A utility on the Mac then read the
> .iso file and installed Office 2008.
>
> Is there such a utility (I like the free kind) that will do the same on
> Windows, both XP and Vista, treat an .iso file as if it were the actual
> CD/DVD rather than having to first burn a CD or DVD?


Yes, there are lots of virtual CD/DVD drive programs. The one that I use if
Daemon Tools, which is free. I do not use the weird toolbar that they have
recently added though.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/home

ss.

Daemon Tools, located here, http://www.daemon-tools.cc/home, will do waht
you want. It's also free.

Buddha

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> This past week, I had to opportunity to install Office 2008 on a
> Macintosh. The installation kit had an extention of .drm (i think) and
> basically produced an .iso file. A utility on the Mac then read the .iso
> file and installed Office 2008.
>
> Is there such a utility (I like the free kind) that will do the same on
> Windows, both XP and Vista, treat an .iso file as if it were the actual
> CD/DVD rather than having to first burn a CD or DVD?
>
> thanks,
> ~alan
>
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