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Monday, February 26th, 2007

Virtual PC 2007 Released: Supports… Windows

I find this quite humorous actually… Microsoft announces Virtual PC 2007 is released and free to download. The press played it as Microsoft vs VMWare. You might think: “Hey cool, I can now run Linux in a virtual partition on XP” but… you’ll be disappointed when you see the list of supported operating systems:

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Well… they at least support 13 versions of Windows including 6, yes, 6 versions of Windows Vista. Gee, thanks. I think I’d stick with VMWare Server…. I’m seeing blogs where some flavors of Linux are running in Virtual PC regardless of MS’s support, but how can you release something and compare it to VMWare when it doesn’t come close in guest OS support?

Oh, if you’re just dying to know, yes, it does appear to at least support OS/2 as a guest OS…