XP Mode consists of the Virtual PC-based virtual environment and a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). It will be made available, for free, to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions via a download from the Microsoft web site
Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 [SuperSite Blog]
For a long, long time Microsoft tried to push Windows Vista to end-users as a replacement for Windows XP, a strategy that failed in many ways: users often "downgraded" to XP, many companies and retail vendors chosen not to upgrade (forcing the extension of XP’s lifecycle) and, in the end, Microsoft was forced to accelerate the development of Vista’s successor: Windows 7 (allegedly a Vista without all the “bloatware”). It seems Microsoft, in a classic case of “if you can’t beat them, join them”, has gone one step beyond with Windows 7: instead of trying to kill XP, there will be an option to run applications in XPM (xp mode), which is nothing more than an instance of Windows XP running in a virtual machine
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Looks like Windows XP is too tough to die…
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