Windows 7 and Virtual PC
A very interesting post on the official Windows Team Blog: Windows XP Mode for Windows 7. If I read this correctly, it looks like we’ll have a virtual Windows XP embedded directly into Windows 7, with the ability to run applications directly from Windows 7. From the description and the screen shot, this sounds like it has the equivalent to TS RemoteApps, but in this case connecting to a locally running virtual Windows XP. Now that would be cool! And a real solution to any lingering application compatibility problems, since you’d have an embedded 32-bit Windows XP running in your Windows 7. Legacy 16 bit application? No 64-bit compatible version? No problem, run the application in the virtual XP machine.
One thing that this seems to say, however, is that it’s only coming for Business and Ultimate versions of Windows 7. If so, a shame, since I can definitely see a place for this in Home Premium.
Update: Now that Win7 and VPC7 are publicly available, I’ll have a bit more to say shortly, including a tip on autopublishing.
Charlie.