Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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Member since:2007-02-17
" so obviously you will be needing Windows 7.
Non sequitur. Doesn't follow.
If you need to run XP apps on a modern operating system, what else is there? " You could try running both XP and your XP app under VirtualboxOSE on Linux with contemporary hardware. Any hardware that is supposed to be able to acceptably run Windows 7 or Vista will of course be blazingly fast running Linux.
If your virtual XP installation catches any malware, just wipe the Virtualbox image file and re-instate it from a backup copy.
Probably your XP app would run a lot faster than under Windows 7. After all, Windows 7 is just Vista re-badged and tweaked a little so that suckers^w people will pay for it over again.
Check out the VirtualboxOSE integrated desktop mode of operation.
Member since:2008-08-25
You could try running both XP and your XP app under VirtualboxOSE on Linux with contemporary hardware.
But how to run apps without XP, on a modern operating system?
With a virtual machine there is still basically an XP blob sitting between the app and the real OS, with all the problems of XP (insecurities, licensing issues etc).
The only two solutions I can see are:
1) Vista/7/2008
2) WINE (flaky)
When OS/2 takes over the desktop there will be no need for this discussion. Never broke compatibility from 1.xx onward.
RE[4]: It would be ...
by Gone fishing on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 05:23
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Member since:2006-02-22
You could try running both XP and your XP app under VirtualboxOSE on Linux with contemporary hardware. Any hardware that is supposed to be able to acceptably run Windows 7 or Vista will of course be blazingly fast running Linux.
If your virtual XP installation catches any malware, just wipe the Virtualbox image file and re-instate it from a backup copy.
Tried it for the reasons you suggested - lets say running XP in Virtualbox on multiple PC on a domain server was not a success, turned out to be very unstable and crashed the network switches.
Now I'm dual booting with Linux and have used ntfsclone to clone XP to a image file on Linux, so I can replace XP with a clean copy when needed. However, this is hardly an ideal solution, XP is not great, old insecure etc.
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If you need to run XP apps on a modern operating system, what else is there?