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pcernie
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Location: Belfast
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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I won't be bothering to install it... I haven't found a single app that doesn't work yet.
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Danstevens
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:44 pm
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Looks like bit of a fail but you never know, they could sort it out. I may install it just to see what it's like but from the sound of that review, it probably isn't worth it.
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
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Location: Manchester.
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I won't be installing it as my processor doesn't do hardware virtualization. OK, I can't install it because...  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry I'll behave now. Promise 
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm
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so what, its an XP VM? that BS, anyone who needs the functionality would know how set that up, why the hell are they making such a racket about it? i guess its alright for free, but im sure i read somewhere it has no hardware acceleration, so old video games wont even work 
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big_D
What's a life?
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Location: Bramsche
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It is aimed at business users - it isn't available on Home Premium.
It is designed to run legacy business applications.
The "fuss" is that it is a free licence of XP. If you set up a normal VM, you need to source a valid licence from somewhere...
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james016
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 5:52 pm
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I did have a play with it. There are some nice touches to it. I installed Office into XP Mode and the entries appeared on the Win7 Start Menu. Running the apps from here loads up the VM in the background and off it goes. There was an article (El Reg?) that notifications such as updates or out of date security software will appear on the Win7 notification area causing potential confusion.
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gavomatic57
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Location: Cardiff, Wales
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Hopefully it is there to wean people off legacy support! Let windows have a fresh start.
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soddit112
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i guess thats the upside. and ive read that itll be integrated into the Win7 GUI ie the apps running in XP mode will appear on the Win7 desktop, not a desktop in its own window, which i spose makes it better than a normal VM...
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