Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC

Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC.

All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7.

Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC are best experienced on your new Windows 7 PC. We will be soon releasing the beta of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.

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  1. TechSlave
    Posted on: May 15, 2009 at 2:31PM  

    XP mode is a great idea and a great tool to allow Windows 7 to move forward and not be tied to the past.

    Hope the MS windows team decides to rely on XP mode a lot and really move Windows 7 code base to the future .

  2. TheTechMan
    Posted on: May 30, 2009 at 10:28PM  

    Well if XP Mode for Windows 7 is no different than Virtual PC 2007 then there are going to be some important issues. Virtual PC 2007 emulates older video cards and does not have Direct 3D support. Any 32bit application or game that requires Direct 3D is screwed on Virtual PC 2007.

    Does anyone know the support for XP mode in Windows 7? If it can support Direct3D I would be a happy person.

  3. redtox
    Posted on: October 26, 2009 at 6:54AM  

    i buy windows 7 pro for xp mode but nothing where is XPM ???

  4. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: October 31, 2009 at 2:56AM  

    Hi redtox, you can download Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC here:

    www.microsoft.com/.../virtual-pc

  5. pjc007
    Posted on: November 02, 2009 at 8:42AM  

    Just wondering if there is ever going to be a way to run this WITHOUT hardware-assisted virtualization?

    I realise it'd run slower, but I have a Dual-Core laptop with 4GB memory, which has run other virtual machines just fine, and would love to have the desktop integration that's in Virtual XP Mode, but my specific CPU model doesn't support HAV.

    Thanks,

    pjc

  6. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: November 02, 2009 at 3:59PM  

    Hi pjc007, unfortunately right now you can only use Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on PCs that support Hardware Virtualization. We've not announced anything different regarding this.

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