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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. Re:Oh, it's a goof all right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If corporate interests do not want to switch from XP to 7 due to rewriting apps, what would make them switch from XP to Macs or Ubuntu?

  2. Fortune has the answer by kybred · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple did this, not once but twice. Why is Redmond so afraid of trading out the basic underpinnings? I guess they married the concept of permenant backwards compatibility when they used that very stick to beat OS/2 into the ground.

    The fortune program describe this very well...

    "I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means.

    It means we get to keep all our old mistakes."

    -- Dennie van Tassel

  3. Re:I have a dream... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let Dell, HP, etc try selling computers without a usable OS.

    In the opinion of some people, they're already doing that.

  4. Re:Hardware Virtualization needed. by CarpetShark · · Score: 3, Funny

    I haven't experienced this compatibility of which you speak.

    That's not what you said earlier:

    software[...]that utterly fail to run properly