Coming Soon – Final Release of Windows XP Mode

Thanks to everyone’s feedback, we’re happy to announce that Windows XP Mode has RTM’d today. We expect to make the final release of Windows XP Mode available via the Microsoft Download Center on October 22nd. OEMs will be able to offer Windows XP Mode on their PCs based on their manufacturing schedules.

For more information on Windows XP Mode, including feature highlights and quotes from some of our partners, I recommend reading this blog post.

Windows XP Mode is designed to provide small business and mid-sized businesses running Windows 7 Professional (or higher) the ability to run Windows XP productivity applications that may not be natively compatible with Windows 7. We expect many Windows XP applications to be compatible Windows 7 however Windows XP Mode is meant to serve as an added safety net so small and mid-sized businesses can migrate and run Windows 7 without any road blocks. Windows 7 Professional is designed to meet the needs of small and mid-sized businesses.

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  1. BillGatesII
    Posted on: October 01, 2009 at 11:56AM  

    When will us MSDN Subscribers be able to get it?

  2. Korn1699
    Posted on: October 01, 2009 at 11:58AM  

    Will it be available to MSDN or TechNet subscribers before the 22nd?

  3. J
    Posted on: October 01, 2009 at 3:15PM  

    This obviosuly means that Windows Virtual PC has RTM'd as well?

    Looking forward to having this. When's it on MSDN or TechNet?

    Cheers

  4. someone
    Posted on: October 01, 2009 at 3:29PM  

    Too disappointing it doesn't run on any of my 3 computers as none have hardware processor virtualization.

  5. omaximus
    Posted on: October 02, 2009 at 8:40AM  

    Great, I will test it. I'm sure it will be useful ...

  6. chaos986
    Posted on: October 02, 2009 at 5:53PM  

    windows7 has issues with my university's WebDAV so I have to use WinXP mode to connect.

    It is also very useful to run IE6 if your companies intranet or SAP isn't modern browser compatible.

  7. dextermanas
    Posted on: October 03, 2009 at 5:46PM  

    @chaos986:

    Same here, but I use SouthRiver WebDrive - i've found it not only to be *way* faster than the default Windows implementation of WebDAV (even on XP) and also it's more reliable - no strange connection issues. Has some really great features too. Worth it if you need to work on your remote drive often.

    Also, if you want to use IE6, there are programs that allow you to run multiple IEs on the machine natively. IETester is one of them.

  8. dextermanas
    Posted on: October 04, 2009 at 1:41AM  

    @chaos986:

    Same here, but I use SouthRiver WebDrive - i've found it not only to be *way* faster than the default Windows implementation of WebDAV (even on XP) and also it's more reliable - no strange connection issues. Has some really great features too. Worth it if you need to work on your remote drive often.

    Also, if you want to use IE6, there are programs that allow you to run multiple IEs on the machine natively. IETester is one of them.

  9. sergei
    Posted on: October 04, 2009 at 11:30AM  

    This feature suppose to be in the Windows Vista, when it was intordused. Thanks god that we will have it now.

  10. sroussey
    Posted on: October 04, 2009 at 12:47PM  

    Can we drag an XP window to a non-default monitor in the final version??

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