Windows 7 - Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC

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Good move. I think it'll help a lot

Thanks z3r010.




















Later Ted

I agree with Lebon14, a really smart move. Been running Ubuntu for almost 3-4 years now.. Not until now that I actually like the way Microsoft are going with their products. Love it..

Kind of off topic, but I tried to install the newest build of Ubuntu today on 2 different computers and it would not install for who knows what reason.

Needless to say I will stick with the ease of Windows lol.

i believe it's a wonderful move that will help windows 7 be a monopoly, lol.
if any buisnesses were holding back this should be the seller for them,
windows 7 beta/RC is already awesome at home and the RTM should be awesome at work

Thanks, brilliant move by MS.
Much better than the downgrade decision.

Wish I could find a beta leak. lol

Interesting, maybe i can play worms armageddon again without having to use vmware to avoid the colour problems.. one of my all time fav online games...

This is a GREAT feature if it works properly

I have some old legacy hardware that ONLY works on XP - Not possible to get Drivers etc for this -- Manufacturer in some cases no longer exists and in others says model is either "Obsolete" or "Replaced by a Newer more featured (which I DON'T NEED) model).

This hardware is perfectly serviceable and will function for MANY years yet - for example
Old HP Plotter, professional 35 MM negative film scanner (the EXPENSIVE, non consumer grade sort - almost like a "Drum Scanner" - to shooters on the Forum). TASCAM minidisc studio pro recorder etc.

I've been using a combination of booting into XP natively (and more recently using an XP Virtual machine with VMWARE).

The idea of having this run "Natively" on Windows 7 will immediately be of HUGE HUGE interests to a VERY significant section of the market -- a lot of whom use very high end (non consumer gear) whist not being "very computer literate" and aree still likely to be using XP or even Windows 2000 on their machines.

Well done Microsoft.

Linux has had a similar type of capability for a long while (called "XEN") but somehow to get this to work properly is a job for a Computer Scientist PH.D and even then it doesn't really work for Windows products very well.

Looks finally if Microsoft has deceided -- Well if we can't wean people off XP we can at least get them on board with Windows 7 without having to use 3rd party products.

Note - there's still a real use for Virtual machines in development and testing so don't sell your shares in VMWARE just yet.

Cheers
jimbo