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MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization

Posted by kdawson on from the one-man's-goof dept.

clang_jangle writes "Ars Technica has a short article up describing how Microsoft and Intel have 'goofed up' Windows 7's XP Mode by ensuring many PCs will not be able to use it. (And it won't be easy to figure out in advance if your PC is one of them.) Meanwhile, over at Infoworld, Redmond is criticized for having the 'right idea, wrong technology' with their latest compatibility scheme, and PC World says 'great idea, on paper.' With Windows 7 due to be released in 2010, and Redmond apparently eager to move on from XP, perhaps this is not really a 'goof' at all?"

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  1. mono... mono.. what's the word? by sohp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perfect solution for the two 800lb gorillas of the Wintel partnership. Microsoft gets another lever to force people still using XP to pay for an upgrade, and Intel gets a lever to force corporate buyers who prefer to hold on to machines until they die to upgrade. Dell and HP benefit, too, because of the force hardware/OS upgrade.

    This is how a monopoly operates.

  2. I believe someone else got it right by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe they should have studied how Apple did it, thrice:
        - transition from 68K to PPC
        - transition from MacOS 'Classic' to MacOS X
        - transition from PPC to Intel

    On the other hand with VMWare, Parallels and VirtualBox, there are certainly work arounds.

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