Acer’s United Kingdom Marketing Director, Bobby Watkins, leaked that the 23rd of October will be the release date for Windows 7.
Read the full story »To download seventeen screenshots of the new feature (in a .zip), from Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows, click here.
This week, through the leak of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100), Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera have teamed up to provide astonishing new information about one of the new features in Windows 7 called Windows XP Mode.
The project, which has remained a secret until now, was titled Virtual Windows XP but later changed to its current name. According to Rivera, “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.” Windows XP Mode will be made available for free to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate users. However, the add-on does not come in the Windows 7 box. It will be downloadable off of the Microsoft website. With Windows XP Mode, users can run XP Mode applications side by side with Windows 7 applications (see Figure 1).
The new feature should prove to be a huge bonus for Windows XP holdouts who aren’t quite sold on the idea of moving to Windows 7. Now, Microsoft can boast about near 100% compatibility with XP applications.
Figure #1: A Windows XP application, Office 2003, running side by side with a Windows 7 application, Office 2007.
To download seventeen screenshots of the new feature (in a .zip), from Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows, click here.
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