Something I am working on now, Virtual PC 7

re: Something I am working on now, Virtual PC 7

joscon [Microsoft] — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:16:28 GMT

Drew;

No idea on this one, but I know who would know and that's Ben: blogs.msdn.com/.../virtual_pc_guy

You might want to post a comment on his page and I'm sure he can fill you in.

--Joseph

re: Something I am working on now, Virtual PC 7

Drewfus — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:04:44 GMT

Could you explain about the decision making behind choosing what hardware to virtualize? For example Virtual PC virtualizes some ancient Intel motherboard (for good reasons no doubt). What amount of work would be required to do a new board with all new devices - say a Core 2 Duo on P31 chipset motherboard? Just curious and I assume that in a few years time Virtual PC won't still be virtualizing the same pre-800 chipset.

re: Something I am working on now, Virtual PC 7

joscon [Microsoft] — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:09:34 GMT

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. While I dont like everything in the new Virtual PC, I will say that this is one of the features that I actually prefer over the older iterations of the product.

I guess its all in the way you use your PC daily. For me, I prefer to see entire volumes and know that I can pull data from anywhere rather than being segmented to a couple of folders.

re: Something I am working on now, Virtual PC 7

someone — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:38:24 GMT

That's like pulling drag and drop out of Windows and saying you still have a different way of doing things - cut/copy and paste. Microsoft has developed this disease to remove features in newer iterations of its products and it's affecting all the client product teams.

re: Something I am working on now, Virtual PC 7

joscon [Microsoft] — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:21:12 GMT

You still have it, just in a different way. If you utilize the integration components, your devices can be shared through the VM and you can easily move data.

re: Something I am working on now, Virtual PC 7

someone — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:46:35 GMT

I hate that drag and drop is gone!! Upgrade, eh?