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Microsoft Virtual PC 2007--Free Download

Well, in case you were waiting for it, Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is now available. And if you try searching Microsoft's site for "Virtual PC 2007" Linux, the number one result you get is the Virtual PC 2007 page, on which Linux appears only hidden in the page source.

I love the part of the blurb that says, "Use virtual machines to run operating systems such as MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2." As if those are the only OSes you'd ever want to run.

Actually, it's a reasonable way to retain legacy applications running under, say, MS-DOS or Windows 98, that you haven't already been forced to upgrade. And the fact is, if you want to run Linux as a virtual machine, you probably won't have any problems, at least not based on the results published at What Works and What Doesn't in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 site.

Bottom line is you'll probably do better with VMware, which actually, offically, supports Windows and other Microsoft OSes as well as a wide range of open source OSes.

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