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Microsoft Virtual PC
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Microsoft Virtual PC
Screenshot of Virtual PC 2007 for Windows with virtualized Windows 2000
Developed by
Microsoft Corporation
Latest release
2007 SP1 (Windows), 7.0.3 (Mac) / May 15, 2008 (Windows), August 14, 2007 (Mac)
OS
Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X (deprecated), Mac OS (deprecated)
Genre
Emulator, Virtual machine
License
Proprietary, but free to download and use
Website
for Windows
for Mac
Virtual PC redirects here, for the generic term see Virtual Machine
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 virtualizes a standard PC and its associated hardware. Supported Windows operating systems can run inside Virtual PC, however other operating systems like Linux may run, but are not officially supported (for example, Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, can only get past the boot screen of the Live CD when using Safe Graphics Mode).
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