I have a virtual machine with 98 on it for some old games that don't work right on XP.  You guys that are bitching about backwards compatibility have some serious mental problems.  All the compatibility modes are a mess, containing them in a virtual system is much better.  I'll wait to see what they have for hardware support before I start cheering, but if the damned thing will use your gpu for 3d accelleration, it's a godsend.

That sounds a mite like a BIOS to me, but I digress.

Personal attacks are illogical and don't promote healthy discussion. They are also against the rules of the Forums.

 It's true that if a hacker enter into you house... physically access your computer... install VBootkit on it... then yes it will be able to access all your files.

Remember kids, don't let evil hacker enter your room

 

So I've heard.

The primary reason for businesses skipping Vista is because there are a raft of compatibility issues with a lot of legacy software becoming incompatible. XP Mode on the enterprise editions of Windows 7 blows away all those arguments about legacy compatibility. It's now a non-issue and businesses will now be more confident in leaving XP behind.

This is a very smart move by Microsoft. It shows that they "get it". It

 

 

Couldn't agree with you more...

No, it shows they got YOU.

Doesn't strictly classify as 'personal attack'....more a generalized opposition/opinion....

Back on topic....if W7 has a VPC ver of XP with appropriate 3D acc in graphics, etc then they will definitely be on a winner.

Interestingly...I have Win7 running in VMWare on an XP box....and the bloody 7 boots faster than the host.

God this thing is slow.

 

Really? Wish I could say that about mine....

My xp out runs my win7 on any startup. Only difference is the way I have win 7 configured maybe. Hard to match that with xp. But I don't care how it boots up or shuts down. It's the way it handles and stuff it can do. But it is like a two way street. One does this better and such and such does this like this. So if you think you need another OS to get what you want on the net? Then go for it and buy a new computer with win7. Go all the way and get the 64 bit with touch screen and add a gaming table for the livingroom too.

Thats what I'm think of... A gaming table with touch screen for the livingroom. Just so the relatives can come over and play with the thing and have fun. Plus it would look nice too! Who cares if it is slow or whatever. Long as it does what they want it to do after it is running good. Then it's cool and looks good to me.

Oh and there is that little price tag too! Just get a figure on that stuff.

but who cares - if they make it - they will buy it for sure. Won't they?  Hell I will if it looks that good to me...

Not trying to flame, but why does this seem typical of these forums? They are offering this primarily for businesses. If you don't like it, don't use it!

Intersting that they ommited it can't be done remotely.  The hacker has to be physically at your computer!  Besides, you can do this in any OS on the market....

This was exactly what I thought when I read the article in the news the other day.  I know from the industry I'm in (medical transcription), that transcription services have a platform built for them for transcriptionists to work on, and when Vista came along, some companies upgraded their platform to be Vista compatible, but others didn't (trying to stay competitive by not spending money on nonprofitable expenses).  By including XP mode, they've just opening up the Win7 market for transcriptionists who work for companies with XP-only platforms.

Well see, I don't really have a choice now, do I?  If I want to work, i.e., if I want to have an income, eat, have a roof over my head, etc., in the business I'm in, I'm going to have to be a Microsoft borg.  None of the platforms of the companies that I know of run off of Apple, Linux, or any of the other alternative OS's out there.  I sure would love to get out of this business, it sure doesn't pay what it used to now that automatic speech recognition has come along, but I've got debts, expenses, a family that depends on me to provide for the next year at least until they become independent, and not enough lifespan to make the expensive of going back to college for vocational retraining in a separate field pay off.  Yup...they got me all right.  Sure beats sleeping on a park bench, though.

At my last position we had a few people still running Win3.1 so they could run arcahic mainframe emulation.  And many of our clients had custom designed software that practically demanded Win95/98.  The same is true for XP in some cases.

Upgrading to Vista (just for the support issues) was near impossible.  If Win7 allows for seamless XP emulation then a number of problems could be resolved and the cost of ownership would be reduced significantly.

This is a huge win for MS.