Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix's assets is beginning to bear fruit on the Windows side of the market.
The software giant Monday plans to announce the release to manufacturing of its newly branded and enhanced Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, formerly known as Connectix Virtual PC.
The desktop software, expected to be available within the next 90 days, will allow customers to run multiple versions of Windows on the same desktop, as well as Mac and Linux on virtual machines.
Microsoft, which acquired Connectix's assets in February, shipped Virtual PC for Mac - 6.1 in August.
Running multiple operating systems in virtual machines on the same PC is ideal for corporations that want to test out and ensure quality of applications on newer versions of Windows before they go through an upgrade cycle, or for developers who wish to run both Unix/Linux and Windows applications on the same box, observers note.
News source: CRN.com
The software giant Monday plans to announce the release to manufacturing of its newly branded and enhanced Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, formerly known as Connectix Virtual PC.
The desktop software, expected to be available within the next 90 days, will allow customers to run multiple versions of Windows on the same desktop, as well as Mac and Linux on virtual machines.
Microsoft, which acquired Connectix's assets in February, shipped Virtual PC for Mac - 6.1 in August.
Running multiple operating systems in virtual machines on the same PC is ideal for corporations that want to test out and ensure quality of applications on newer versions of Windows before they go through an upgrade cycle, or for developers who wish to run both Unix/Linux and Windows applications on the same box, observers note.
News source: CRN.com
The image also contains a Universal Media Disc, the 1.8GB mini disc-style storage device that will house games, movies and music. It's not entirely clear where this will slot into the machine although, judging by the curve of PSP itself, it looks as if UMDs will be inserted into the side of the machine.
"PSP will be the Walkman of the future," said Kutaragi, who also added that Sony eventually plan to add "telecommunication features" to the device.
"PSP will not be one kind of product," he said. "Rather, it is a platform of related devices with the capacity to add or subtract features."
Kutaragi also announced that final design details are still to be confirmed, so it's unclear how different the current mock-up of the PSP will be to the final model.
Meanwhile, with PSP's movie and music-playing capabilities, Sony have explicitly stated, "We are taking on iPod with our new device. We are coming at [Apple CEO] Steve Jobs on that front." In addition to PSP, Sony will next year release a digital music player to rival iPod for just $60 (around £35).
For more on PSP, including its full specifications, check out the links below.
Virtual Server is still under development, and that's for Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server families
Are they trying to make it sound like you will be able to run Mac OS on a Windows PC or the other way around? That's an example of a very poorly worded description.
does that mean it might run osx, or mabie even os9?
VPC cannot run MacOS as it does not emulate the CPU
The VPC guest will run using whatever CPU is on the host PC
This is evident if you build a VPC on an Intel host and then start it up on a AMD host - it redetects the CPU. Most other components (NIC, SB16, VGA) are emulated
Nice to play around with, I always wanted to try windows 3.11 again
I would be glad if it could be a little bit faster though.
Don;t you think?
TNx
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/154250&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=187
Microsoft removed Virtual PC linux support and is only limiting it to Windows. VMware is far superior, I must say.
Just tried it with RH8 - works fine as other
Interestingly it doesnt allow you to keep any settings from 5.2
At the beginning of install it tells you that 5.2 will be removed as part of the install but when you then go into VPC04, any VPC's you had setup in 5.2 are gone...
Also, you have Virtual PC Configuration files (which im sure you didnt in 5.2) like in VMWare so when you configure a new VPC, you actually create a VMC file with a virtual hard disk associated to it.
here is one screenshot i found...
edit:
one more: http://www.grendosa.com/dump/virtualpc2.JPG
Last edited by 27657 on 12 Nov 2003 - 15:42
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