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In yet another twist on the road to the release of Windows 7, Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott revealed a secret they’ve been keeping for quite a while! They were briefed over a month ago, on a “Virtual Windows XP” that would run alongside the Windows 7 shell for older, incompatible apps, such as those that are 16-bit.
The integration is based on the next Virtual PC line from Microsoft, “Virtual PC 7.” It requires processor-based virtualization support (enabled on both Intel and AMD’s processors), comparable to the Hyper-V virtualization platform present in Windows Server.
How will it work?
The Windows XP virtualization package, which will be available for download free for users of the Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions of 7, will be a fully-licensed version of Windows XP with SP3 already integrated. The OS will of course be easy-to-install into the Virtual PC environment and use to run your old apps.
Unlike traditionally running another operating system within Virtual PC, the special Windows XP package will use technology similar to that of “MED-V” to produce the result seen in the above image. Windows XP will essentially run inside of Windows 7. When you install an app in Windows XP, it will be recognized by Windows 7, and a shortcut icon will be placed in the start menu, like any other install.
From Windows 7, you can launch a single application within Windows XP without even touching the XP UI.
Could allowing people to download and use an 8-year-old operating system possibly help anything? The answer? An astounding yes! By allowing Microsoft to remove TONS of legacy code that’s been left in there through the years to support all of those old applications, boot times, hard drive space, and a plethora of problems that arise from the code, can be eliminated. XPM could be the thing we’ve needed for years now, to continue our leaps forward without the restraints of providing support for outdated applications.
XPM is, well, an actual copy of Windows XP. So anything, absolutely anything you were running on your Windows XP install before, will continue to work after downloading the XPM package in Windows 7. This could be a huge benefit to Microsoft as well. The people who were using the stability and compatibility of Windows XP as an excuse not to upgrade no longer have that excuse. Businesses who’d prefer to stick to old applications can continue to do so, whilst expanding their range of abilities with tons of new features that have developed over the past 8 years.
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View: XPM at Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows
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