Microsoft Releases Install Notes Win 7 XP Mode
Just in case you still have some applications that demand XP.
Running Windows 7? Missing the old familiar stench of XP? If you're running Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate, you'll be able to get back the old-car smell with Windows XP mode – provided that you've got the right virtualization-supporting hardware.
Just in time for the release of Windows 7 worldwide, Microsoft has posted installation instructions and release notes for Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode. You can download both right here.
Of course, after familiarizing yourself with the installation, you'll need the actual XP Mode or Virtual PC software. That can be had from Microsoft as a free download right here.
Let us know if you manage to get it running and how it feels to have some old inside the new!

you are perhaps one of the most unbiased reporters i've ever had the displeasure of reading
while everything about apple is high praise, even something as cool as XP, you repeatedly refer to as a 'stench' and you take a not so subtle jab 'if you manage to get it running'
Did you mean biased?
you are perhaps one of the most unbiased reporters i've ever had the displeasure of reading
while everything about apple is high praise, even something as cool as XP, you repeatedly refer to as a 'stench' and you take a not so subtle jab 'if you manage to get it running'
XP Mode installs with absolutely no updates released after SP3 and Internet Explorer 6. Maybe someone should send those IE8 adverts to the development team...
Did you mean biased?
im talkin' to you Nvidia LOL
wow
You are perhaps one of the most irritating commenters I've ever had the displeasure of reading.
You can make anything sound like a jab against Windows with enough paranoia.
(Yes, I read the letter posted a few days ago because this person was basically berated for Apple hype. But letting Marcus go and talk about something he apparently is not used to is a little lame and deffinately not a way to win us back)
Marcus Yam has been writing most of the Windows 7 articles too. I've read articles by Marcus with both positive and negative spin regarding news about both Microsoft and Apple.
Windows is too complex for apple users!
Very true. course these days adding support for OS9 would be like windows 7 giving support for "windows 98 mode" at least making XP compatible is a smart move since XP has dominated for the past 8 years and still is a great OS (other than windows 2000 or NT according to hardcore enthusiast)
also suppose you only need XP for 1 app that your company uses
so you install the windows xp VM and it takes 1GB of your system memory and lots of CPU cycles and memory bandwidth because it is running a full OS, just to run a single application that would otherwise use a few KB of memory
so you loose overall system performance, and in a business world, time is money, lower performance means mote time wasted.
With Vista getting such a bad rep before its release, i remain very sceptical about W7 and know little about it.
Question is: Why does W7 (being the amazing OS its claimed) need an XP compatibility mode?
After all. XP is nearly 10 years old and MS just cant seem to put it behind them.