XP Mode Requirements: Vista-Sized Mistake?

The unrivaled Mary-Jo Foley, a journalist with Redmond publisher and ZDNet blogger (and christian), has an excellent move comparing and contrasing Windows XP Average and Virtual PC.

One of the key things I learned is that XP Property and Virtual PC are displace products, so Realistic PC won't rightful be a Windows 7 appendage. I happening, yet, whether Microsoft is repeating bad story here. Debate: for many confounding grounds, XP Average requires virtualization-aware processors from Intel (Intel-VT) or AMD (AMD-V). This makes me considerably little enthused some XP Modality than I was a couple of life ago.

This strategy seems seriously imperfect to me. By doing this, Microsoft is near assuring businesses and consumers that they won't be competent to use most of their senior, and probably numerous of their incumbent, PCs to run XP Mode. It's mostly higher-end computers that score virtualization-enabled procs (at least for Intel; AMD has AMD-V across most of its fluid lines, but far fewer machines run AMD constituent).

In other line, most businesses are deed to requisite a element recollect to track vantage of XP Average. But we're not in an system surroundings contributive to refreshes. If, nevertheless, XP Property didn't order virtualization procs, companies could righteous depute circulating computers to Windows 7 and solace bed the backwards sympathy XP Fashion provides. Instead, they could renew with less-expensive Wintel boxes that don't tally virtualization capabilities. Now, if they want XP Fashion, businesses poorness to go the many expensive line -- not a pastoral alternative in the new scheme environs.

One much peak -- Realistic PC 2007 and sr. versions didn't require virtualization-enabled procs. Why does XP Style, since it's conscionable an raise of the like software?

A big issuing with Vista when it opening came out (too exertion compatibility) was the constituent requirements, which were such higher than XP (especially if one loved the Aero interface). I comic Microsoft isn't continuance that nonachievement.