Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Goes Gold

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Feb 20, 20071 min

It's been a long road since Connectix Corporation first came out with Connectix Virtual PC. And then back in February of 2003, Microsoft acquired that technology and then shortly thereafter released Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. With the world's view on how much virtualization should cost constantly changing, Microsoft added to that price fluctuation back in July when it announced that it would be giving away its V

It’s been a long road since Connectix Corporation first came out with Connectix Virtual PC. And then back in February of 2003, Microsoft acquired that technology and then shortly thereafter released Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.

With the world’s view on how much virtualization should cost constantly changing, Microsoft added to that price fluctuation back in July when it announced that it would be giving away its Virtual PC 2004 SP1 product as well as its future release of Virtual PC 2007.

Well, that time has come. Microsoft finally released its latest, and probably its last version of Virtual PC into the wild. The desktop virtualization platform is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and is supported on Windows XP Pro, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.

The new version, free of charge, added the following features:

  • Support for Windows Vista 64-bit as a host

  • Support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system

  • AMD-V and Intel VT support

  • Improved performance over the previous version of Virtual PC 2004

You can download this free virtualization platform, here.