Done and Done - Win7 Goodness

[ssurgul]

So, I know I posted before about the kewlness of Win7. I'm going to repeat myself: it freakin' rocks!

However, now, there's an even BETTER feature I just discovered courtesy of a lame-ass sales presentation for resellers of the product. There's now going to be a derivative tool put in place call XP Mode. It leverages Virtual PC 2007 and allows for 'true' compatibility between Win7 and XP apps by placing a licensed, SP3 install of XP for the system to use. They actually learned from VMWare and VirtualBox. It's a lesser miracle, but one that will make Win7 truly lightyears ahead of the older OS'es by no longer requiring compatibility at day one of launch, and all but denying functionality without that compatibility. I need to check if it'll work with the games for XP and such, but still, it's about fucking time they wised up and gave the consumers something to actually use.

Comments

[twigmouse.livejournal.com]

I've been using W7 since the last beta. I've been using XP moe to run software that I know or suspect to be infected with something (Peggle is my most common example). I, of course, turn off all integration.

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

Well my biggest interest in XP mode is for 32bit apps that cause delays or hangups in the 64bit kernel. And for games that Win7 simply doesn't like very much. But for a purely professional aspect, this means too that all my clients can be moved to Win7 for most of their needs/desires without worrying about client compatibility issues. The only downside I can see would be hardware compatibility because if it's truly a VM running atop the regular kernel, the SVideo capture and USB device drivers might not handle things properly with a second layer in there.