IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh
From the IEBlog: Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that we’ve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007.
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19.4.2007 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but don’t have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006 Virtual PC 2007 now available on Connect
Virtual PC 2007 includes support for virtualization technology from Intel and AMD. By default, hardware-assisted virtualization is enabled if the feature is enabled on the physical computer.
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12.10.2006 Virtual PC 2004 SP1 is freeware!
Microsoft has released an update to Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1, and is now making the virtualization software available free of charge to all users. The company also promised to freely release Virtual PC 2007 next year, bringing support for Windows Vista.
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13.7.2006 Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate
Happy New Year - Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate ready for download.
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3.1.2007 Virtual PC 2007 Final Released
Use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between virtual machines with the click of a button.
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19.2.2007 Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1
Save time and money as Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs.
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19.5.2008 Windows CE 6 Beta running in Virtual PC
The first Virtual PC lab is now tested/running (see the screen shot below) - I'm handing the lab over to MSDN today for testing and to release to the MSDN Virtual Labs web site.
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13.7.2006 Enable Aero Glass in Windows Virtual PC
Windows Virtual PC along with XP Mode (RC) was released yesterday for Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise and Professional users.
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6.8.2009 Running Virtual PC 2004 SP1 on Windows Vista
Normally, one would install Virtual PC to run a beta operating system on top of their production environment. In this case however, you might just be risk taking enough to run a beta operating system as your production environment. In such a case, you may have applications or other things that don't work the way you hoped under this operating system. This is where Virtual PC comes in run a production operating system on top of a beta environment. Clever, huh?
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4.3.2006 Microsoft adds Virtual PC 2007 Beta to Connect
Microsoft will offer testers the chance to test the latest version of Virtual PC dubbed Virtual PC 2007.
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5.10.2006 Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1
Yesterday we made the Windows 7 Beta available for public download. Hopefully you’re as excited as I am that the beta is here! The Windows 7 Beta is already getting some rave reviews for its new features, performance, and stability. But it is a beta, and with that comes the potential risk that some things may not work as well as they will in the final release.
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13.1.2009 Windows 7 RC New Features in the Spotlight: XP Mode and Virtual PC
Windows 7 Release Candidate, although virtually at an apparent standstill in evolution since the release of interim Builds 7048 and 7057, does manage to take it up a notch with the secret features Microsoft confirmed to have tucked away since the public Beta Build 7000 in January 2009.
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10.5.2009 Microsoft will start Virtual PC 2007 public beta program in October
A new beta enrollment appeared on Microsoft site Connect: Virtual PC 2007 Beta Program.
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1.10.2006 Download Windows 7 XP Mode RC and Virtual PC RC
Redmond-based software giant Microsoft made available the release candidate flavor of Windows 7’s XP Mode add-on on Tuesday. The beta iteration of XP Mode was released on April 30, along with the beta variant of Windows Virtual PC, and the RC version comes as another step the company is taking towards launching the final iteration of the add-on.
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5.8.2009 Download Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode Final RTM 7600.16393
Microsoft’s virtualization solution for Windows 7, Windows Virtual PC (VPC) and Windows XP Mode (XPM) final RTM builds have been compiled and signed off as build 7600.16393 on September 22nd, 2009.
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9.10.2009 Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC Coming Soon
Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC.
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27.4.2009 Windows 7 - XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
April 30, 2009 is not only synonymous with the broadening of the Windows 7 Release Candidate testing pool, but also with the delivery of additional features for the RC development milestone.
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1.5.2009 Enable RemoteApp in Windows XP or Vista To Publish Programs to Windows 7 Virtual PC Host with KB961741 or KB961742 RAIL QFE
Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7 features an unique and useful feature which allows virtual applications installed on guest operating system of Windows XP or Windows Vista in the virtual machine to be seamlessly accessed and launched from host Windows 7 desktop as if it’s running on the end user’s local computer.
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9.10.2009 Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 available 5 of 5
Windows Virtual PC Beta, a feature of Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise, provides you the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop.
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3.5.2009 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Gates opens entertainment window
Though Bill Gates is in town to tout his hot new Xbox 360 to the hordes in attendance at the huge Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), his horizon extends to the Hollywood hills ? and beyond.
Video games are key, but the Microsoft chairman also has his hand in much of the behind-the-scenes wrangling over entertainment and the Internet.
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12.5.2006 Window Seizer 1.00 Beta
Windows Seizer and a standalone freeware utility which lists all the windows you have open on your PC.
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31.3.2007 Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync
Today, the FolderShare Team is shipping a Beta Refresh of both the Windows Live FolderShare website and client that offers some great improvements to the Windows Live FolderShare service at http://www.foldershare.com/.
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11.3.2008 Napster hangs "for sale" sign in front window
Napster is evaluating the possibility of a sale by hiring of an investment bank. Citing "recent third party interest," the company has asked UBS Investment Bank to explore strategic partnerships or an outright sale of the company.
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20.9.2006 New Window Management System for Windows 7 Pre-Beta
The window management system is one piece of the Windows 7 graphical user interface which will evolve starting with the pre-Beta version of the operating system.
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3.10.2008 Windows Vista Build 5728 Availability Window Closing Soon
Nick White has posted this on the Vista team blog yesterday, thought I'd give everyone who is interested in testing the latest build of Vista a heads up on the limited availability.
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26.9.2006 Secunia round 3: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 RTM'ed, Window Vista 99% RTM
On Monday Microsoft will announce that the 2007 Microsoft Office system products have been released to manufacturing (RTM).
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6.11.2006 Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009Hyper-V and slow guest OS installation
Ben Armstrong: I have seen a number of reviews and comments about the fact that while Hyper-V virtual machines appear to be quite fast once they are
up and running - operating system installation seems to take quite a while. The reason for this is relatively easy to explain.
With Virtual Server and Virtual PC we only had emulated devices to use - and as a result we spent a lot of time optimizing and tweaking the
performance of these emulated devices. When we implemented the emulated devices under Hyper-V we had to remove many of these optimizations due to the
entirely different architecture of Hyper-V. We did not, however, spend much time re-optimizing the emulated devices on Hyper-V because we had the new
synthetic device architecture where we have focused our attention for performance tuning.
This means that Hyper-V emulated
devices are slower than Virtual Server / Virtual PC emulated devices - but Hyper-V synthetic devices are much faster than Virtual Server / Virtual PC
emulated devices.
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27.02.2008Windows Virtual PC Evaluation Guide
This guide describes how to install Windows Virtual PC and set up a virtual environment, such as Windows XP mode or a custom virtual machine. It also
shows you how to try out some of the key features of Windows Virtual PC.
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30.04.2009Microsoft Makes Virtual PC
Freeware
Microsoft has released an
update to Virtual PC 2004
Service Pack 1, and is now
making the virtualization
software available free of
charge to all users. The
company also promised to
freely release Virtual PC 2007
next year, bringing support
for Windows Vista...
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13.07.2006Things that Virtual PC needs to be run as Administrator for...
For the most part Virtual PC is able to happily run when you are using a non-administrative user account and everything will work. There are -
however - a couple of things that will not work correctly unless Virtual PC is run under an Administrative account...
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04.01.2008How To: Get Windows 7 Aero in a Virtual Machine
This week, Microsoft made the XP Mode RC available to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate users. Most Virtual Machine emulating software
has not offered support for Aero previously, including Microsoft's own Virtual PC 2007. Now, thanks to the powerful set of "Integration
Components" in Windows 7 Virtual PC and the enhanced, updated version of Remote Desktop in 7, we can now have the full Aero Glass experience in
Windows 7 Virtual Machines, provided the host can handle Aero, and has it enabled. Here's how to get it: This assumes you already have Windows
7 installed on your PC in Virtual PC. Step 1: Enable Aero on your host machine.
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07.08.2009Virtual PC 2007 Beta Now Available
Microsoft on Thursday released
a beta version of Virtual PC
2007, the latest version of
the company's virtual machine
software that is capable of
running Windows Vista as both
a host and guest operating
system. The update takes
advantage of new hardware
virtualization technology from
both Intel and AMD...
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13.10.2006Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Released
Anyone who has tried Virtual
PC 2004 on Windows Vista knows
that the experience can leave
something to be desired. But
today, from the hard working
folks on the Virtual PC Team,
we have Virtual PC 2007.
Virtual PC 2007 was
optimized for using Windows
Vista as the host operating
system, allowing you to run
multiple operating systems on
a single PC and have an
excellent experience doing so.
Virtual PC 2007 has also been
optimized for Windows Vista
running as the guest operating
system as well.
Virtual PC 2007 is both free
of cost and unsecured by
Windows Genuine Advantage.
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25.02.2007Virtual Machine Remote Control Client Plus v1.6 Available
VMRCplus is a tool for both configuration management of Virtual Server and remote control of virtual machines. It allows for local and remote
management of Virtual Server and supports simultaneous management of up to 32 Virtual Server hosts.
Remote control sessions of
virtual machines are grouped in a single window using Tab pages. The interface enables sorting virtual machines based on various properties like name,
status and description. Multi-select of virtual machines enable you to perform actions to change their status or open remote control sessions all at
once.
VMRCplus is a Windows application and does not require IIS to manage Virtual Server.
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03.11.2007Microsoft Kills Virtual PC for
Mac
Microsoft said Monday its
Macintosh Business Unit has
decided not to go forward with
a version of Virtual PC native
to the Intel platform.
However, the company said
progress was being made on
updates to Office and
Messenger...
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08.08.2006Microsoft to Remove Eolas Barrier in IE
Microsoft has begun advising customers on planned changes to IE now that it has licensed technology from Eolas, however it may have accidentally let
slip a release window for VIsta SP1 and XP SP3 to boot...
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09.11.2007Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Now Available
Service Pack Update for Virtual PC 2007 qualifying Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 and XP SP3
Save time and money as
Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the
efficiency of support, development, and training staffs.
With Microsoft® Virtual PC 2007, you can create and run one or more
virtual machines, each with its own operating system, on a single computer. This provides you with the flexibility to use different operating systems
on one physical computer.
For more information about the ways you can use virtual machines, see Virtual PC at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=78095.
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16.05.2008Microsoft Issues Free Virtual PC 2007
The long-awaited update to
Microsoft's virtualization
software was released Monday.
Virtual PC 2007 brings support
for Windows Vista -- as both a
guest and host operating
system -- and takes advantage
of new hardware virtualization
technology from both Intel and
AMD...
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20.02.2007Windows SharePoint Services Developer Evaluation VPC Image
A time limited evaluation VHD containing Windows SharePoint Services and Visual Studio 2005 for use with Virtual PC or Virtual Server.
Download all parts and run the EXE. This will uncompress the Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) and the Viirtual PC and Virtual Server configuration
files. Once you have the VHD unpacked you can start it in Virtual PC by double clicking the file WSS-V7.vmc or you can import the file WSS-R2.vmc into
Virtual Server
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16.05.2008Microsoft: No PC-to-PC Sync in
Vista
In the seemingly never-ending
list of features to be
stripped from Windows Vista,
yet another has fallen by the
wayside. Microsoft made a
decision to remove PC-to-PC
synchronization from Windows
Vista, Microsoft Watch
reported...
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08.06.2006Virtual XP for Windows 7 Beta released to MSDN and TechNet
According to Paul Thurrott, a beta version of Virtual XP for Windows 7 has been released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The download comes in two
parts. The first is KB958559, an update for Windows 7 that includes Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7. The second, is another exe that installs the
Windows XP with SP3 virtual machine itself. To run Virtual XP Mode, users must be running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate with
preferably 2GB of RAM with at least 256MB available to virtualization, and a processor that supports hardware virtualization. Many times hardware
virtualization needs to be enabled in the BIOS to be functional.
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30.04.2009Microsoft adds Virtual PC 2007 Beta to Connect
Microsoft will offer testers
the chance to test the latest
version of Virtual PC dubbed
Virtual PC 2007 . This
follows the Virtual Server
2005 R2 SP1 Beta program which
is scheduled to end on the
30th of March, the same date
as Virtual PC 2007 is expected
to end.
Testers
eager to get their hands on
the client version may
nominate themselves
starting on the 10th of
October .
The
current version, Virtual PC
2004 -is a powerful software
virtualization solution that
allows you to run multiple
PC-based operating systems
simultaneously on one
workstation, providing a
safety net to maintain
compatibility with legacy
applications while you migrate
to a new operating system. It
also saves reconfiguration
time, so your support,
development, and training
staff can work more
efficiently.
Microsoft had previously
stated
"Microsoft will also offer
the free download of Virtual
PC 2007, with support for
Windows Vista, available in
2007."
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05.10.2006Active Virtual Desktop 2.01 released
Ever wished you had several
screens on your computer?
Active Virtual Desktop is a
virtual desktop manager which
will create up to 9 virtual
desktops allowing you to have
different programs running on
each of them. This virtual
desktop manager resides in
system tray area (near the
clock) adds virtual desktops
buttons here. That allows you
to switch from one virtual
desktop to another with a
single mouse click. You can
easily minimize, maximize,
close, move from one virtual
desktop to another and even
drop windows to the system
tray using the windows manager
window.
Customizable hotkeys helps
you conviently operate with
your virtual desktops and move
applications from one virtual
desktop to another. Active
Virtual Desktop allows you to
have own wallpaper for each
virtual desktop.
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11.11.2006Microsoft Adds AMD to Virtual
Server
Microsoft's Virtual Server
product is getting support for
AMD's virtualization
technology with an upcoming
service pack, the company
announced Thursday. Beta 2 of
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
introduces the feature, which
means improved performance for
virtual machines running on
AMD systems...
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01.09.2006Microsoft releases XP mode RC for Windows 7
Microsoft has released updated bits of Windows XP Mode for Windows 7. XP Mode is a method to provide better compatibility in Windows 7, and to pull
it off with as little trouble as possible. It's also dubbed XPM, or formerly Virtual XP. XPM is built on the next generation Microsoft Virtual PC
7 product line, which requires processor-based virtualization support (Intel and AMD) to be present and enabled on the underlying PC, much like
Hyper-V, Microsoft's server-side virtualization platform. XP Mode will bring a Virtual PC-based environment, as well as a fully licensed version
of Windows XP SP3, free for all owners of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions. XPM will provide 100% compatibility with Windows
XP.
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04.08.2009VMware Ships Free Virtual
Machine App
VMware on Wednesday introduced
VMware Player, a free tool
that enables users to run
virtual machines on a Linux or
Windows PC. The company says
that the program would be
ideal for those beta testing
software, or evaluating
pre-built application
environments. The release of
the Player comes during
VMworld...
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