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Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement

Posted by kdawson on from the marketecture-in-action dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This week, Microsoft published a patch that allows Windows XP Mode to run on PCs without hardware-assisted virtualization. Which begs the question: Why the bizarro requirement in the first place? Was it an honest attempt to deliver an 'optimal' user experience? Or simply a concession to the company's jilted lover, Intel Corporation — 'a kind of apology for royally screwing up with the whole Windows Vista “too fat to fit” debacle,' as the blog post puts it."

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  1. Re:begs the question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, this begs the question on how to use "this begs the question".

  2. Randall C. Kennedy by jwietelmann · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/21/2329249 Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud, Subsequently Given Front Page Story on Slashdot for Some Reason

    1. Re:Randall C. Kennedy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      What makes you think Slashdot editors actually RTFA. They just got to the part were Microsoft was criticized and then hit the post button, who cares about the source of the information.

    2. Re:Randall C. Kennedy by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

      It looks to me as if he's just got a sockpuppet he uses to troll people. Trolling means page views and page views means ad revenue. What's the problem really? He was writing for a bunch of IT trade rags, not the New York Times.

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      echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  3. Slashdot begs the question by blueskies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why all the begging?

    1. Re:Slashdot begs the question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      How die alone in 5 easy steps:
      1. Go to college.
      2. Major in math/engineering/CS.
      3. Take a logic class from the philosophy department so you can blow it off and get an A.
      4. Armed with your logic lingo, smugly correct everyone's technical misusage of the phrase "begs the question."
      5. This isn't really a step. This is just the part where you die alone.
  4. Re: Randall C. Kennedy who got fired by InfoWorld? by FrankPoole · · Score: 2, Funny

    WTF. Seriously? Slashdot is sourcing these jokers? This article is written by the same guy who was pretending to be the CTO of Devil Mountain Software and then got fired by InfoWorld after he was outed. What a tragedy....

  5. Re:You know what begs the question? by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe I've found the source of the taste drain.

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    "Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
  6. Re:My best guess.... by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 1, Funny

    Remember the SX series of 386s and 486s, with the FPU disabled, though still on the chip?

    Grandpa, is that you?

  7. Re:My best guess.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought it was for when you were running on battery.