• Windows XP Mode saga

    Posted on October 3, 2009 at 09:42 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Microsoft just announced that the final version of Windows XP Mode – the XP-in-a-box solution for companies worried about upgrading to Windows 7 – will be available on the same day that Windows 7 is available, namely October 22.

    The people I know who have tried WinXP Mode like it. Which surprises me because running WinXP in a Virtual PC session seems like a very tenuous idea for inexperienced corporate users. But, hey, I don’t have to support a thousand people running antiquated mission-critical software that hasn’t been updated in the past four years, and is inexorably wed to a nearly-ten-year-old operating system.

    The WinXP Mode announcement is just as notable for what it doesn’t announce: obviously MS must have made important changes to Virtual PC, they just didn’t bother to talk about it in the announcement. Paul Thurrott has an insightful take on the situation:

    Microsoft announced today via its Windows Blog that it has released Windows XP Mode (and presumably, Windows Virtual PC–these guys never explain anything correctly) to manufacturing… Notice there isn’t a single mention of Windows Virtual PC in there. Microsoft? [knock, knock] Anyone home?

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