Comments on: Virtual XP in Windows 7 RC. Virtually useless.

By: Mirror Tiles ·

Mirror Tiles · — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:46:07 +0000

Windows 7 is hard to install on a desktop system without upgrading the bios first `;`

By: Mirror Tiles

Mirror Tiles — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:09:49 +0000

i have problems installing windows7 on my PC, maybe i need a bios update–~

By: manfred

manfred — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:36:40 +0000

Thanks for your comment, John.

You are absolutely correct: the Win XP version provided is a fully-featured version an does allow additional users to be created and does provide domain features as you point out. My confusion with this product relates more to the question as to why Microsoft bothers providing a Virtual machine running XP at all, especially in a corporate environment. If existing software requires XP, why would anyone bother buying Win 7 just to run that application inside a Virtual machine. I guess I would rather have seen some form of extended XP compatibility mode built into the Windows 7 kernel if that is required to support outdated software. Having an XP environment around is handy for testing, but I personally don’t see how useful it is for running productive applications day to day – I much prefer a native environment for that.

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:06:48 +0000

I find your review somewhat ill-informed; the installation of XP is a full, vanilla install of XP SP3 Professional; you can add it to a domain, change the default user, etc, as you normally would, all while retaining auto-login and other integration features. You can pretty much do anything you could do with an XP installation.

Also, I have ubuntu installed as another virtual machine under Windows 7.