MS VirtualPC 2004 now free for everyone!

General Topics
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Ever wanted to play with OS without fear of crashing everything? Wanted to test something really wicked? Now you have chance! ;D
VirtualPC 2004 can completelly emulate entire PC, so you can install any OS on it and run the thing right from your current desktop as any other program.

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

Virtual Server 2005 Download (server is pretty busy):
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/04/03/566267.aspx

Have fun and thx to Microsoft guys for this one ;D

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VMWare won’t like the MS VirtualPC become free ;D ;D

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Rejzor any idea if they plan to make the Macintosh version free? ???

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Hi Mac,

I looked at the Mac version also and it seems to still cost, and I couldn’t find a stand alone packaged version of the software on the Microsoft site either, I only found the bundled version that came with the Microsoft Office for Mac. I hope they make it free for Mac users also, but I don’t really think that will happen. I wonder if I can run OS X in Virtual PC…

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http://vpc.visualwin.com/ No, I don’t think so justin.See link.

For everyone’s benefit

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Systems Requirements

Virtual PC 2004 SP1 runs on: Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Windows XP Professional or later, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later.


Hope this helps,tim

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Yes I saw this too, but it doesn’t seem to have been tested because OS X doesn’t appear anywhere on that page, and even if a certain OS does not work with Virtual PC, they still list it saying that it does or doesn’t.

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OS X can run on any x86 based machine no need for virtualPC if you can find a way to fool it. See it looks for a TPM chip on the motherboard to verify its apple Hardware otherwise apple uses intel chipsets and processors and GPUs come from ATI and nvidia nothing is diffrent besides the TPM module

Justin, stand alone copies of VirtualPC for mac are avaliable at any apple retail store