It’s only the first quarter of 2007, Microsoft has already started giving away some gifts. Its latest version of Virtual PC 2007, is now a freebie. The Virtual PC 2007 is a program that allows users to run multiple operating systems at once on a single physical computer. This means that you can run Windows XP, Vista or ME etc on the same physical machine. Users can easily switch among operating systems by only clicking the mouse! If you’ve ever used software such as VMWare, then you should know how this works. The only downside is Virtual PC supports only Microsoft’s operating systems, which means you’re unable to have non-MS operating systems such as Linux, MAC etc.
The new version of the Virtual PC has some additional features such as:
- 64-bit host operating systems
- Hardware-assisted virtualization
- Network-based installation of a guest operating system
- Running virtual machines on multiple monitors
It’s available for free download for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. To me, I’m not so interested in running few Microsoft’s OSes under one physical machine. Maybe I’ll do for only XP and Vista. I’m more interested to have different vendor’s operating systems under one physical machine, such as Redhat/uBuntu Linux, Mac, Solaris and Windows XP would be just nice. Too bad, Virtual PC can’t do it!
source: DailyTech
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