A system tool developed by Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Virtual PC is a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and an emulation suite for Mac OS X on PowerPC-based systems. The software was originally written by Connectix, and was subsequently acquired by Microsoft. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product. In August 2006 Microsoft announced the Macintosh-hosted version would not be ported to Intel-based Macintoshes, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintoshes are no longer manufactured.
Virtual PC emulates a standard PC and its associated hardware. Thus, it can be used to run nearly all operating systems available for the PC. However, issues can arise when trying to install uncommon operating systems that have not been specifically targeted in the development of Virtual PC.
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| Website: | microsoft.com/windows/... |
| License: | Free |
| Version: | 6.0.192.0 |
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Works great for testing software. If you want to have some fun, install WfW 3.11.
But, add some USB support please.
Using win9 with it. works like a charm.
Intuitive wizard, easy connection and works well for most applications. (Oracle XE is an exception and usually throw error from ODBC source)
While machine restored from saved state, time are not always synchronized, a reboot will fix the problem.
Would appreciate if MS adding USB storage support.
Awesome software. I'm on Vista 90% of the time, but I have XP running almost always in VPC. Very convienient and uses less resources than VMWare.
For 95% of us needing to run virtual sessions, VirtualPC is a great fit. Of course, being from Microsoft, it works best with virtual sessions of Windows, etc. It's not as powerful as VMWare, but it has a lower overhead. Most of us won't ever need the advanced features of VMWare so this is just fine.
A good, competent tool for the problem. VMWare is the only real competitor but I don't see any compelling reason to switch at the moment.
VMWare is better. Virtual PC is fine however if you just want to run another Windows OS and not mess with the hardware.
Pretty crappy. No native USB support, no real support for non-MS OSs and it glitches like crazy on network stuff.
I would like to like it but it makes me hate it.
Not the best by any stretch, but it does work very well for what it intends to do.