Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007, and it’s still free
Last year Microsoft released Virtual PC 2004 as a free download. At the time I didn’t see much point. Today Microsoft announced it’s successor Virtual PC 2007 and, yes, it’s still free. Yeah you might be wondering about Microsoft’s motives in all this. So was Wired and this is what they had to say:
For the suspicious among you who find it hard to believe that Microsoft would give anything away, the company claims that “virtualization technology moving forward will be in the management and the operating system rather than in the virtualization stack.” So I guess the value is in the OS, not the virtualization of the OS. Perhaps that’s why lower-end versions of Vista aren’t licensed for virtualization.
Microsoft is obviously pushing Virtual PC as a means to maintain legacy and custom applications that don’t work with Vista, rather than as a way to run Windows and Linux apps side-by-side as many virtualization enthusiasts like to do. For that there’s always Wine.
Source: WIRED Blogs: Monkey Bites
Okay, I’ll buy that. Encourage businesses to jump to Vista and not have all their machines dual-boot to XP or something. Just run VPC07 with XP and use your old apps. Well the proof will be in the pudding, of course. How fast does it run, how well does it play with other apps and peripherals. Want to give it a try? Download Virtual PC 2007 now.
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