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Virtual PC is now free - so you can use it to build better demos and carry them with you, or run legacy OSs on a PC for compatibility reasons

Hi guys,

here at Partner Conference and one of the snippets I picked up is that Virtual PC is now a free download, following the lead Virtual Server.

There are restrictions I believe, in the number of hosts, but how great is this.

The product can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx

ttfn

David

Posted Wed, Jul 12 2006 8:23 PM by David Overton
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Tim Long wrote re: Virtual PC is now free - so you can use it to build better demos and carry them with you, or run legacy OSs on a PC for compatibility reasons
on Fri, Jul 14 2006 3:23 PM
I've used Virtual Server for some time now (I was pretty miffed that I paid 400 squids for it just before it became a free product, but that's life, eh?).

This post has got me wondering: why would anyone use Virtual PC when Virtual Server 2005 R2 is free? What's the advantage? Before R2, Virtual Server would only run on Windows Server 2003 so the demarkation was clear, but now that R2 runs on Windows XP, I'm confused why two products are even necessary. Is there an official Microsoft line on this?

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