XP Mode for Windows 7

To ease the application compatibility issues for migrating to Windows 7, Microsoft is going to incorporate the Virtual PC technology in to the Windows 7 operating system. The Windows XP applications will be published and run within the Windows 7 Desktop to achieve a seamless user experience. See the Windows team blog announcement here.

All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7.

See here some snapshots

The Enterprise equivalent of the XP-Mode is MED-V which provides scalability, management, security and other enterprise features. See MED-V information here.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  April 27, 2009
  Only downside is it requires hardware virtualization, so potential enterprise and professional users will be less. Few processor models have hardware virtualization today.