Microsoft’s acquisition of Connectix’s assets is beginning to bear fruit on the Windows side of the market. The software giant Monday plans to announce the release to manufacturing of its newly branded and enhanced Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, formerly known as Connectix Virtual PC.
Microsoft To Release Virtual PC 2004 To Manufacturing Next Week
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I’ve seen screenshots and read reviews, yes it’s been rebranded, but the only “enhancement” I’ve heard about was removing the native Linux configurations. Innovation! I’m going to buy it as soon as it’s available!
So whats new? Besides the drop of Linux/Unix and others support, which is the only ran VPC on a windows box…
But will there be a new feature that is going to make me want to upgrade?
At least they’re ahead of product release for a change.
A “year” release ready-for-release before that year has finished? A first for Microsoft, that’s for sure!
There has been much talk about Microsofts reduction in support for any non-MS-OS. Will OSnews.com run a test when it comes out so we can tell what MS really did?
Sorry but calling pressing cds “Manufacturing” is an insult to people who actually manufacture things for a living.
Yeah, but you I thing that the emulation has certain advantage over computer buy.
You may called “Manufacturing” but I “pressing”.
So it is good the general, but you think not maybe.
However I wish graet day to the lot of you.
So with Microsoft releasing the next major release of VirtualPC can I expect that according to KB article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=827904 Microsoft VirtualPC is going to be compatible with G5 aka. Power970 CPUs?
OK, I do not know MS stance on Unix + VPC, but I pressume that the “drop for non Microsoft OS” simply means you cannot buy a bundle that comes with a OS that is not Windows. VPC will also probably be sold OS free (and hence, cheaper), so being it a x86 emulator I cannot see the problem there. Just download your fave distro (instead of expecting it to be bundled with VPC) and install it, which is pretty much like you do with your real life PCs.
Some of you must have misplaced your dictionaries a long time ago.
Manufacturing is not limited to any specific type of industry and pressing plasitic when done on a large scale utilizing machinery to produce your product is certainly manufacturing.
elmimmo wrote:
VPC will also probably be sold OS free (and hence, cheaper)
I really dont think that Microsoft is going to offer a OS free version of VPC.
Yes, some people make manufacture CDs for a living.
If you think glass master preperation, developing and metallising, electroforming and stamper finishing, press alignment etc… are easy, I suggest you try it.
It’s a little different from burning a CDR.
I bet the new Virtual PC will run Linux fine, but slowly over the next few years it will become more and more difficult or unreliable, as they will continue to evolve it without fully testing it with Linux.
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I really dont think that Microsoft is going to offer a OS free version of VPC.
I expect it will be sold as it has been:
Microsoft Virtual PC
Microsoft Virtual PC – With Windows 2000
Microsoft Virtual PC – With Windows XP Home
Microsoft Virtual PC – With Windows Professional
i don’t like when Microsoft does things, there are to many strings put on by them on their products. They also should open their arms to opensource and totally rewrite windows like Apple did OS X when it aquired Next.
Maybe MS should of aquired Be OS.
Isn’t your first option the OS-free version?
As for manufacturing, if stamping metal parts can be considered manufacturing, then so can pressing CDs. Both involve lots of preparation and design.
No official Linux support.
Can’t understand why anyone would want to suffer the headaches of emulation. I used to support the earlier versions of this app back when it emulated windows 95. It was a pain then and i can’t imagine it being any better now. If you want to run PC applications buy a PC!
It doesn’t seem correct that the only reason MS purchased that company was to allow people to emulate older versions of MS products. I think there is either a huge contract that they needed to purchase this for or a patent issue. You can’t spend that kind of money on such a small niche product. So what else could MS use this company for? I suspect a virtual server cluster running on one or two systems that will have super fast fault restarts and restores. Maybe a security feature?
Virtual PC is handy for testing applications on multiple standard OS setups. You can do things like roll back changes to the disk image and stuff. I’ve actually found it abit flaky when compiling GNOME or running SuSE 8.2 on XFS. I guess that won’t be getting any better
I ran across a blurb mentioning that MS would be using “Virtual PC technology” to support XBox1 games on the XBox2, which apparently will be using IBM processors (presumably PowerPC based, maybe even the G5. What might that mean for G5 support in a future mac version of Virtual PC?). Before you gasp, remember that an XBox1 has a 700MHz CPU. MS could emulate that using a much faster CPU and pass the 3D work right to the GPU. As long as the emulation is as fast as the XBox1, it doesn’t have to be faster.