No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners

Voyager529 writes "While virtually every Core 2 Duo processor supports the hardware virtualization technology that powers the Windows 7 XP Mode, The Register UK reports that the Core 2 Duo processors in the Sony Vaio Z series laptops had the virtualization features intentionally crippled in the BIOS. Senior manager for product marketing Xavier Lauwaert stated that the QA engineers did this to make the systems more resilient against malicious code. He also stated that while they are considering enabling VT in some laptop models due to the backlash, the Z series are not among those being retrofitted."

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Probably a DRM thing

[Dr_Barnowl]

.. because if you can install a hypervisor, you can use it to virtualise devices, which means you can use it to produce digital copies of media.