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Microsoft's Next Virtual PC Will Run Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the say-it-ain't-ain't-so dept.

Fallen Kell writes "Contrary to previous reports, eWeek is reporting that Microsoft's new version of Virtual PC will support Linux as a virtual OS. I for one am very glad that MS did not strip out all the capability from this great product."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp! fp!

  2. terminal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    on the subject, does anybody know of a good online, mulitplatform preferably, terminal emulator, er, emulator?

  3. planet/population rescue runs on gnuclear power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that's right. this stuff is unbreakable, & wwworks on/in several (more than 3) dimensions. yOUR kode base is growing exponentially.

    the phonIE payper liesense softwar gangster ?pr? ?firm? stock markup FraUD bullshipping industrIE has raised momeNTdumb insignificantly/temporarily.

    as for using the pateNTdead eyecon0meter for meteorologica/environmentall reporting: we're using the OnStarGazing&HandWaving system, which appears to give more accurate results than the model rocket cam we were using.

    not only are we building a vessel that floats on almost any suBStance, we're also developing a support net (actually) working devise for it.

    lookout bullow. get ready to see/hear/feel the light.

  4. Re:It will run Linux... by KikassAssassin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Except if you'd actually... hmm, heh, you're right. I missed that one completely. My apologies.

  5. Re:Sure it supports it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why the HELL is this funny?!?!?!

  6. no subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2075 -- AI programs evolve and some robots began to resent their human overlords.

    2077 -- In the first case of a machine rising up against its owners, the butler robot B166ER slaughters two humans, leading to B166ERs eradication and a backlash
    against robots and artificial intelligence.

    2080-85 -- Rioting and violence against machines prompts robots to flee major cities and establish their own community -- known as Zero One -- in a remote part o
    f the Middle East.

  7. Re:JESUS by atheken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jesus, save us from your followers.

  8. But I thought they hated Linux :P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On June 1, 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."

    Just think about this quote for a minute....

  9. I know this is /. but why would... by ducomputergeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a mac user really need to run Linux on their native unix box? I switched from Linux to OS X because I had the same development ablities as on linux and had commerical software support.

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    "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.