With Microsoft’s release of Virtual PC 7.0 to manufacturing this week, several sources close to the Redmond-based software giant were able to obtain finalized copies of the product. A collection of screenshots from the soon-to-be released emulation software package are included in an exclusive AppleInsider photo gallery.
Sources provide Microsoft Virtual PC 7.0 screenshots
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A Screenshot of Dock integration for Windows apps would have been nice
> It is me or the fonts look like shit?
You mean like that ?
http://www.themeworld.com/cgi-bin/preview.pl/fonts/shitfont.0.zip
btw. It’s funny how Microsoft seems to think that Windows is the only OS for PC’s out there (see the “Install Windows” and “Getting Started” screenshots).
If MS continues this way, they could better rename it to “Virtual Windows” instead.
Hm, please ignore my previous comment about the fonts and CRT/LCD monitors.. can’t be it (didn’t see all images yet).
Even though I REALLY agree with your comment. M$ should really, at least, acknowledge other OS’s can be installed on VPC. But on the other hand, Microsoft does own the product, so really have the right to do what they are doing.
But really, we all know you can use VPC with other operating systems, and to people that don’t yet realize this . . . . well, not sure what to say about that.
I true OS News form, the article is a series of screenshots of the install process!
wow, those screenshots are very worthless.. why didn’t they take some shots of some more interesting aspects of the emulator rather than configuration dialogs?
> wow, those screenshots are very worthless.. why didn’t they take some shots of some more interesting aspects of the emulator rather than configuration dialogs?
What else could they take screenshots of? Windows XP?
They could have made a shot of XP running some sort of benchmark + mentioning the system VPC is running on… That would’ve been a great screenshot.
If MS continues this way, they could better rename it to “Virtual Windows” instead.
They would never admit publicly that Windows does run on PPC (the XBox 2 Game development kit is a modified version of Windows 2000 running on Apple G5s). I don’t know why though, it’s a sign of quality if an OS is portable. And they could indeed build a “Virtual Windows” running as a Mac OS userspace program, with hardly any x86 emulation involved (just for 3rd party libs/apps).
However, it’s clear that they suggest the so-called PC only runs Windows. In the consumer area where TCO is pretty much the price of the Software and nothing else, it’s the best marketing strategy to deny there are any alternatives to Windows.
http://www.appleinsider.com/vpc7gallery.php?image=17
Really, no option for two-button mice? Microsoft likes being dense…
And on the point of Windows on the PPC: Windows is large, the Xbox2 dev kit would likely be very reduced Windows 2000. Getting the whole thing over to Mac probably wouldn’t be worth the money they would have to spend porting it. Most people don’t buy Macs because they love Windows.
I guess no one remembers that Windows NT ran on the Alpha. Windows NT was orginally ment to be as portable as possible. But sales were sluggish on non x86 platforms and it significantly increase the development time needed to produce the OS.
As to the mentioned Windows 2000 dev pac for the PPC (G5). Much of the dev pac is a carry over from the Windows NT work.
In the lab it also ran mips, sparc & ppc
Nice set of screenshots.
Key sequence: None
Microsoft Coroporation? see screenshot #2
and I thought MS was claiming their software was more professional than open source stuff. ha.
They would never admit publicly that Windows does run on PPC […]
Why not ? They certainly used to, so I can’t think of any reason why they wouldn’t now.
And they could indeed build a “Virtual Windows” running as a Mac OS userspace program, with hardly any x86 emulation involved (just for 3rd party libs/apps).
Except for the small problem that all those “3rd party libs/apps” would need x86 emulation to run.
Those shreenshots look cool, but what I want to konw is how quick the thing is. Microsoft is evasive on the subject (would it really hurt to pubish some hard data?)
In the lab it also ran mips, sparc & ppc
NT4 was initially developed on intel’s i860. It was released and supported up to SP3 on MIPS and PPC. It was supported to SP6 on Alpha. Windows 2000’s Alpha variant made it to RC1 or thereabouts (IIRC – at the very least well into the betas) before being canned. Rumors had it that NT4 was also seen running on Sparc (as you note) and HP PA-RISC internally. The NT guts were reportedly even briefly considered for OS X, back before Apple bought Steve Jobs and NeXT. There is little reason to believe NT is any less portable now than it was originally designed to be – the NT development team were always careful to treat x86 as “just another platform”.
MIPS and PPC were fully supported releases – none of this “in the lab” stuff. There should be appropriate binaries present on any pre-SP4 NT4 CD, although you might have difficulty finding hardware to install them on (not to mention software to run).
Take a look at this:
http://www.appleinsider.com/vpc7gallery.php?image=6
maybe they forgot to change the guide version to 7!!
Yes. NT was considered as base of new Mac OS. Bill Gates was lobbying heavily for it and promised to put hundreds of engineers on it. It was the endian-issue which terminated it, Microsoft guys did not have a solution for it.
According to this, VPC 6.1 won’t run on a G5.
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html
According to this, VPC 6.1 won’t run on a G5.