Windows 7 will feature XP mode

haha finally microsoft admits vista is a steaming turd!

i knew it about 2 minutes after using it

I read this article two days ago...
cmon theInquirer guys! give us some fresh news.

When this story broke, by people who can actualy report news, all the details were given, including the licensing details. So it is perfectly clear. It will be a free download for upper versions of Win7, and will include a valid XP license. Hop over to Rafael Rivera's or Paul Thurrott's sites and educate yourself.

I applaud your journalistic ability - this tale was all over the net yesterday - where were you?

I expect windows7 to be nothing more than vistaSP2, with yet another stupid GUI

but don't underestimate the intelligence of the masses: some years have passed, everybody has now the RAM to run vista, and faster processors, etc., so, even if it's the same old crap, people will now like it and say it's wonderful

and for the odd ones that actually like XP and would be glad to stick to it, they add this feature so that a downgrade is not necessary, and you get a cramped OS which is the worse resource hog ever compiled but now has the same old GUI that you know and love so say thanks because we really want to kill XP, therefore not only will you not be able to buy a new computer coming with it but we also are going to break the one you have already running at home, if we find the way to do so

Then why 'upgrade' if you're going to downgrade and use a virtual o/s at that ?

I agree, those who said Vista was a turd will probably love Vista SE.

NoOne Will Want To RUN xp Instead of 7, Unless Your Equipment Won't handle 7. If that be case, why buy 7? st drashek

why do microsoft feel like they have to produce new operating systemsall the time? is it just about profit? if so, that explains the pointless gimmicks of vista.

if an o/s just works then why supercede it?

also, if you have hardware capable of running vista, use it on xp and see it respond properly instead of pausing all the time.

i cant see any advantage of vista unless you want more than 3.5gb ram - which is only of any use if you run vista?

ToTaL PaRaDoX!!!

el chupanibre has no idea what he is talking about, operating systems have to be updated all the time to make better use of more modern technologys as they are released, also even thought i hate vista you do get better processor scheduling of threads and multiprocessor support compared to XP

and to samspqr vista is a pig and making it run on more ram or a faster processor wont make the os run to the full potential of the hardware if it is written badly

and also note its aimed at businesses so having xp run over the top of 7 in a virtual environment like it says allows companies the advantage of using the new features in windows 7 while keeping there older software untill it is updated to the new os

el chupanibre... I think you forgot that the world is about making profit. Its not like its a bad thing, thats how the capitalism works.
Companys make money... not much out there aren't there to make money... maybe mozilla foundation and wikimedia that are big, and I know there are a lot more but most of them wants to make money. So yes microsoft is there for profit which making OS is part of it and I don't think they should be ashame of it. If you don't like it, don't buy it and then if nobody buy it then they'll have to change because they want to make money not loose it.

You guys seemed to have missed the real story, namely that MS plans to release a super cut-rate edition of Windows 7 for netbooks that will sell for the paltry $15-25 that it currently collects for XP licenses (in a not so subtle effort to exclude Linux).

As you might expect, the netbook edition strips out all the eye candy and extras. What is surprising is that MS will limit the number of concurrent applications that can be run to just three! Forget multitasking under this Windows for White Trash edition of Windows 7. It doesn't take much of a leap to deduce that this will be the version of Win7 that MS pawns off to the third world as well. If its good enough for Mississippi, then its good enough for Myanmar and Mumbai!

Greed will only hasten the arrival of the post-Microsoft world. MS should take a good look at the economic history of ATT. The still unequaled avarice of the good ole "Phone Company," and its utter disrespect for its customers, ultimately spelled doom for the world's most powerful monopoly. One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies . . . hey Bill, pick up the phone, your customers are calling.

1) Windows 7's XPM is *not* a VM in the literal sense you get to interact with a XP desktop. It's more like a XP subsystem with Citrix-style presentation a-la RDC.

2) If whoever posted this "news" had actually read Microsoft's release, it clearly states that Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions will ship with an additional Windows XP SP3 license. Any home user can get hold of Professional or Ultimate editions; 7 Enterprise is only available to eOpen or VL customers.

3) Judging from the comments above, it appears those making nasty "win7 sucks" statements that they have not actually *tried* one of the public beta versions of Win7. While its specs for the time being are the same as Vista, it was designed to work on anything from Netbooks to Workstations. It is excellent even on old hardware-- and the product isn't finished yet. Don't knock something you haven't tried on your own (old) hardware.

4) The writer of this article left out a very important detail. The XPM only works if you have a CPU that has Intel or AMD VT technology. This feature also needs to be enabled in BIOS as well. Given the complexity of enabling VT the average user is not likely to know, care, or bother with it. It's definitly an Enterprise-Class feature for experienced admins & power users.

I find it strange people still have no idea what it actually is they are criticizing.

Question for you all, Windows Vista is based on what OS?

1. DOS
2. Windows 95
3. Mac OS-X
4. Windows NT
5. UNIX
6. Windows ME
7. Amiga Workbench
8. CP/M

If you said 1 or 2 kill yourself now.

I think it's more a case of the operator being incompetent. The last BSOD's here where with NT 5.1, NT 6 (WinServ2008 with SP1) has been as solid as a rock apart from nVidia alpha drivers ;) .

I guess we should turn the tables now for the Mac fanatics.
We should start trolling about the quirks in the original version of OS-X, Tiger and presume they don't patch as well. Time to get rickrolled by lolcats