Every day now I hear more cool Windows 7 stories. Apparently, there is a competition in Finland as ‘who can install Windows 7 on the oldest PC’. The main challenge seems to be ‘how to get that DVD on a machine with no DVD player’ :-).
And then this morning, I saw this story;
“Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine, the company confirmed Friday -- the first time Microsoft has relied on virtualization to provide backward compatibility.
Dubbed "Windows XP Mode," the add-on creates an XP virtual environment running under Virtual PC, Microsoft s client virtualization technology within Windows 7, said Scott Woodgate, the director of Windows enterprise and virtualization strategy.”
Read the original blog:"All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode, the applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop, and then you can run them directly from Windows 7."
To my kids: Good news boys, those Bob the Builder games will run on daddy’s PC once again very very soon :-)