Windows 7 pro and ultimate to include winxp virtualization

[biostud]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...professional-and-ulti/

 

[foghorn67]

Neat, but why?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
Neat, but why?

To run old business applications that don't run on Vista where the authors refuse to get with the times, or the business owners refuse to upgrade.

 

[frostedflakes]

Doesn't sound like anything new. XP and Vista both had compatibility settings to help get old software running on them. No surprise that Win 7 would have this as well.

 

[footballrunner800]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Doesn't sound like anything new. XP and Vista both had compatibility settings to help get old software running on them. No surprise that Win 7 would have this as well.

youre missing the point. all windows have some compatibility settings but this is different. were talking about running winxp in a virtual environment. this means 100% compatibility with winxp programs.

 

[frostedflakes]

Just sounded like marketing hype to me. Maybe it is significantly different than compatibility modes in previous Windows OS, though.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: foghorn67
Neat, but why?

To run old business applications that don't run on Vista where the authors refuse to get with the times, or the business owners refuse to upgrade.

I would expect that this is something we can expect more and more of in the future. Virtualization is so cheap these days that it's silly to tie Windows development down by worrying about backward compatibility.

 

[Griffinhart]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Just sounded like marketing hype to me. Maybe it is significantly different than compatibility modes in previous Windows OS, though.

It's definitely not just hype and it's significantly different than a compatibility mode. It's using a combination of Virtual PC 7 running a full legal copy of XP SP3 and Remote Desktop Publishing individual apps through it. The result is legacy applications running in a full XP environment but behaving like a standard application rather than a Virtual Desktop within the Win 7 Desktop.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Kinda off-topic, but how well would games run using the XP virtualization?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Kinda off-topic, but how well would games run using the XP virtualization?

Poorly