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From: TimF	4/30/2009 2:52:51 PM
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Windows 7 will feature "XP mode" Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will support some XP apps via a VM using VirtualPC. Redmond is taking a page from the early days of Mac OS X with Windows 7. Similar to Classic—Mac OS X's emulation-based support for Mac OS 9 (and earlier) apps—the newly confirmed "XP Mode" that will appear in Windows 7 will use a VM for backwards compatibility with a previous-generation OS. Win7's XP Mode uses VirtualPC to run some XP apps. In a blog post (via CNET), the Win7 team says, "All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7." If Microsoft was going to do this, I almost wish that they actually had ripped off of the Classic/OS X combination, in the sense that Apple just threw out all of the previous Mac OS and introduced a completely new OS with no legacy support except for a VM. But maybe I'm just a crack-smoking Mac user who shouldn't be opining on what Microsoft should or shouldn't do. Discuss. arstechnica.com

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