In a move that was very expected, but is very unexpectedly early, Microsoft have today announced that they’ve removed the barrier that has been preventing many people from installing and using the new XP Mode feature in Windows 7 Professional and higher.
As of today it will run without requiring this hardware support. This is excellent news for Windows going forward and is finally a clear sign that Windows 8 could drop all legacy support completely in favour of a virtualised solution like this.
In an interview this week, the General manager of Microsoft’s Windows Commercial Product Management (how do they fit these titles on business cards?) Gavriella Schuster, admitted that Microsoft have found a way to eliminate the need for hardware virtualisation at the BIOS level.
An updated version of XP Mode is being released today, though Microsoft have stressed that anybody already running it has no need to upgrade.
More of the above is here:-
http://windows7news.com/2010/03/18/xp-m ... alisation/..... and a related article here:-
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-Win ... 7873.shtml
