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Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare?
CWmike writes "Microsoft's decision to let Windows 7 users run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine may have been necessary to convince people to upgrade, but it could also create support nightmares, analysts said today. Gartner analyst Michael Silver outlines the downsides. 'You'll have to support two versions of Windows,' he said. 'Each needs to be secured, antivirused, firewalled and patched. If a company has 10,000 PCs, that's 20,000 instances of Windows.' The other big problem Silver foresees: Making sure the software they run is compatible with Windows 7. 'This is a great Band-Aid, but companies need to heal their applications,' Silver said. 'They'll be doing themselves a disservice if, because of XPM, they're not making sure that all their apps support Windows 7.'"
wrong mod, whooops.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
Nonsense!
Try running wavelab 5, Magix Music Maker. Try actually using protools 8 and see if you don't get buffer problems, pop's and other shit.
If this windows 7 is like vista, it's crap. You don't fucking run a realtime audio and video production in a fucking VM!!!
The box I loaded up recently was a HP Sempron 32bit 2.2 GHz laptop, There was so much crap running on it I had to track down and kill services, I a had to install ztree to track shit down, manage files (Fucking explorer is DOGSHIT!!!) Registry tweaking, I never did find the reason HELP CENTER keeps popping up in the middle of your work. The AVG 8.5 made the box nearly completely useless until it was uninstalled. Pop-up messages in the fucking middle of editing drumagog in magix audio studio, etc. no .NET was installed so the Sony vegas crap won't load either. UAC restrictions! Fuck, It took me three days to defang vista. with all the pop-up alerts, Access Denied!, new locations for shit, failed installations and troubleshooting and clean up of each failure. After all said and done the only thing I managed to install in three days was
Magix Audio Lab
Sound Forge
A still broken, yet somehow "installed" wavelab 5 (supposedly there's a fix for the "open file" failure, but I never found a working solution)
A shitload of audio and video plug-ins (which just takes time to install period, but pop-ups from AVG, and HELP CENTER didn't make it easy)
Vegas 7 + plug-ins
We are talking an insane waste of productivity time. Call me, pissed off. I did the work for a friend so I fought through it, but man.
If anyone ever want's a vista laptop worked on again, I won't do it, it should have been formatted with XP sp3.
In fact, I have always loved Microsoft, but not their current products. ... I dunno how to put it but it just never let you take full control even though you have admin. From experimental compatibility settings to Security | Full Control, to the interface, hidden files, folder view, explorer.exe, IE (and a shitload of addins), for god sakes I had to install fucking firefox to navigate for patches and shit.
All that fancy eye candy, incompatibility, popups, access denied, and drm crap can go fuck itself. Nearly every program I tried to use had some stupid fucking problem to track down, and the box
After this experience, I will run XP behind a fucking firewall, until I die, or no longer use the web.
And dear friend if your reading this, the only way we will reload that HP again is if it's formatted with XP.
Wanna know the funny thing?
When I finally got back from this insane install fest. I found my Christmas For Windows 1994 CD. I had always liked the "Christmas Tiles" game. Being 1994, the disk was targeted at win 3.1, So I pop it in and copy C4WTILES.EXE, and BWCC.DLL and boom it lights right up. This was on an XP box, and I would BET it works in wine on linux, but I DOUBT it would work on VISTA.
Vista is a cluster fuck of nonsense.
If windows 7 is similar, I would short Microsoft stock if you catch my drift.
Come on microsoft what the fuck!?