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Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Removes Linux Support

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-adds-the-coveted-multiple-network-interfaces dept.

Psykechan writes "MSFN has got themselves a beta of the new MS Virtual PC 2004 which should be out at the end of this year. Most notable in their 'fixes' is the removal of Linux, BSD, Netware, and Solaris from the supported OS list. They may still work, they just aren't supported. We all thought that this would happen after MS bought Connectix but this just makes it official."

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  1. Can you say "antitrust settlement" by Xpilot · · Score: 1, Troll

    Isn't this anticompetitive behaviour? Helloo...justice department!?

    --
    "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
  2. Re:Pretty useless then by dougmc · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yes, because as a PC user you've never accounted for the thousands of dollars your poured into your piece of shit fly-by-night crap.

    Macintoshes are cheaper, and have been for almost a decade now.

    Wow. Quite the little troll, aren't you?

    I can get a brand new, pretty decent 2ghz Athlon box for around $400. What can I get from Apple for that price? Perhaps a set of speakers for a G5 Tower?

    By the way, I'm sure you'll be happy to know Microsoft is counting you as a windows user as it convinces everyone that they have %90+ market share.
    And I'm sure you'll be happy to know that Microsoft has even been known to include Macintoshes in it's 90+% market share estimates.
    How does it feel to be a tool of Microsoft?
    Dunno. You tell us.
  3. Re:Pretty useless then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    We went for Virtual PC because it was cheaper than VMWare (By quite some margin, I might add).

    However we've already been shafted by the Connectix - Microsoft handover; we bought VPC 5.0, and when we wanted to upgrade to 5.2 they're no longer available. All we can get is a 5.2 trial, or the 5.0 we already have. The Virtual PC page at Microsoft also used to say VPC 2004 would be released in November; now it says "End of 2003". Bah!

    You get what you pay for. Meanwhile intelligent people like me have been happily running VMware for many years. Please not that VMware blows away all other similar systems in many respects. Run can run USB devices that only work in Windows even if you're in Linux. It has undo and snapshot mechanisms just like VPC.

  4. Re:This is the first step to killing VMware by warmcat · · Score: 3, Troll

    VMware is not just for consolidating servers, last week I used it for the first time and was able to lose having a Windows machine for legacy apps for the first time. There are still two apps I need to use that Wine can't cope with, this is a really nice and fast solution. $299 for VMware makes sense because it allows everything to live on the one 3GHz laptop here, its a radical simplification.

    Another interesting point is that Windows XP running on Linux via VMWare is defanged somewhat security-wise. I only need to use IE inside the VM for Windows Update, for all other browsing and email its on the native Linux OS, which is prettier than XP anyway with KDE. The .EXEs that can run under Wine (or Crossover Office more precisely) I run on Linux. So the VMware VM is a two-app ghetto that will never run anything else.

    If you have legacy apps in Windows, VMware is the answer, the parent could easily be right.

  5. Re:Try VMware on a mac by Performer+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    They didn't simply not support the competition the ELIMINATED IT. They purchased a company/product that was a generic component of a cross platform system and eliminated the other platforms leaving THEM and ONLY THEM. It is a big deal.

    Where is the frikin' DOJ & anti-trust laws when you need them?