Windows XP In a Browser

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Posted by timothy on Thursday July 21, 2011 @05:58AM from the where-it-belongs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "JPC — the pure java PC emulator — has now been upgraded to JPC2, and can run WindowsXP inside the Java Applet sandbox."

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Wow, that sounds painful by jandrese · 2011-07-21 06:01 · Score: 5, Funny

I assume this is for those times where you want your Core i7 machine to run like a 486?

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1. Re:Wow, that sounds painful by JoeDuncan · 2011-07-21 06:02 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  It'll come in handy to run those old DOS games that aren't properly clocked and run *way* too fast on modern machines....
2. Re:Wow, that sounds painful by jawtheshark · 2011-07-21 06:05 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  That's /really/ old DOS games (Think Alley Cat), and DoxBox handles those situation just fine. The later Win9x games (not runninig under DOS or the DOS4GW extender) were already correctly time. Well, I haven't ever encountered one that wasn't.
  
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Licensing issue? by Xocet_00 · 2011-07-21 06:01 · Score: 4, Interesting

This has to violate the license terms of XP.
1. Re:Licensing issue? by rbrausse · 2011-07-21 06:07 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  no, according to the EULA you are allowed to:
  
  You may install, use, access, display and run one copy of the Product on a single computer, such as a workstation, terminal or other device (“Workstation Computer”).
  I don't see any rationale why a virtualized environment isn't accepted as a computer - but you need for every instance a own XP license.
  If I remember correctly the EULA of Windows Vista (excluding Ultimate) forbade virtualization.
2. Re:Licensing issue? by blair1q · 2011-07-21 06:20 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  You don't purchase software. You purchase a software license. And a copy of the licensed software. You can sell the copy, but with it goes the license. This is an argument that was resolved in the licensor's favor half a century ago.
3. Re:Licensing issue? by pavon · 2011-07-21 06:38 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  To add to the above posters, the only instance in which Microsoft might choose to not authenticate your computer when this occurred would be if you had OEM Windows XP license, because you are not allowed to install that on any other computer than the one you bought it on. In practice they were pretty lenient, but the strict terms of the XP license did cause me to avoid it in favor of Win2k.
NSFW? by pz · 2011-07-21 06:09 · Score: 3, Interesting

When I try to visit the linked page, I get ---
This Page Cannot Be Displayed
Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://jpc2.com/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been associated with malware/spyware.
Threat Type: Othermalware Threat Reason: Hosted on IP controlled by a group or individual known to be malicious.
If you have questions, please contact your corporate network administrator and provide the codes shown below. Notification codes: (1, MALWARE, Othermalware, Hosted on IP controlled by a group or individual known to be malicious., BLOCK-MALWARE, http://jpc2.com/)
That does not inspire confidence.

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Yo dawg by logjon · 2011-07-21 06:22 · Score: 4, Funny

We heard you like bloat, so we put bloat in your bloat so you can wait while you wait.

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Re:How deep can it go? by davidbrit2 · 2011-07-21 07:52 · Score: 4, Funny

It's like Matryoshka dolls, but each one has more devastating genetic deformities than its container. The one in the middle looks like the love child of the California Raisins and ET.
Can this really be called running in a browser? by MikeUW · 2011-07-21 09:47 · Score: 3, Insightful

If this requires a Java applet to run, then isn't the virtual PC essentially running in the Java runtime environment? Yeah, suppose you can do some stuff to make the browser interact with the VM and vice versa...but I don't think this really demonstrates anything special, other than demonstrating the ability to virtualize a WinXP machine in Java.
Of course, I haven't read the article...