Tuesday, Feb 20th 2007 by Ewdison Then


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Virtual PC 2007Microsoft releases the new Virtual PC 2007 today and guess what? It’s a free application. Unfortunately for Mac users you wont be able to get this new release. Microsoft only developed Virtual PC 2007 for Windows only and supporting both Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

Supported host operating systems are Windows Server 2003, Vista Business, Vista Enterprise, Vista Ultimate, XP Professional, XP Professional x64, and XP Tablet PC Edition.

Supporting guest operating systems are Windows 98 Second Edition, 2000 Professional, XP Home, Professional, Tablet PC Edition
Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, OS/2 Warp Version 4 Fix Pack 15, OS/2 Warp Convenience Pack 1, and OS/2 Warp Convenience Pack 2.

Although not officially supported, MS DOS 6.22, Windows 95, 98, ME, and NT 4.0 Workstation should be able to run. So go and grab a copy for yourself.

Microsoft releases the latest edition of Virtual PC [dailytech]

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  1.  Jiz   View all comments by Jiz  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    SO….. WTGH…. Where is the Free OSX Version…. From the looks of it, they are still charging for that one…

  2.  r0cksteady   View all comments by r0cksteady  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    SO….. WTGH…. Where is the Free OSX Version…. From the looks of it, they are still charging for that one…

    This is quite confusing… I believe this post needs an update… the sentence:

    “Unfortunately for Mac users that are still on PPC you wont be able to get this new release.”

    To me implies that this will run on a host OS X for Intel Mac… however… the following sentence:

    “Microsoft only developed Virtual PC 2007 for Windows only and supporting both Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.”

    Seems to implies that it’s only available for Windows host systems.

    Knowing that M$ recently stated that they won’t be releasing a VirtualPC update to support Intel Macs running OS X (see http://www.eweek.com/article2/.....434,00.asp among others) I believe the second sentence is probably the correct one!

  3.  Ewdison Then   View all comments by Ewdison Then  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    Thanks for the input, i have updated the entry

  4.  Chris Davies   View all comments by Chris Davies  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    Would you be able to run Virtual PC in Parallels on the Mac?

  5.  Ewdison Then   View all comments by Ewdison Then  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    i’m not sur eif it will inside a virtual environment, but it could be.


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