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19 Jul 2006

For all your slow Windows needs

Published in Apple, Microsoft  |  2 Comments

Microsoft Virtual PCApparently Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac is now free. This isn’t surprising, as there is now BootCamp and Parallels Desktop for Mac, yum, 2 os’s at the same time. (via FactoryJoe)

I’ve owned Virtual PC for 2 years now and ran it about 4 times when I first got it. It was too slow on my dual 1.8 G5. Go figure. :)

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  1. Will says:

    July 19th, 2006 at 12:33 pm (#)

    VPC is free, but not the Windows license.

    I know I’m not the only one who finds it odd that Microsoft will not update VPC to run on Intel chips. The last update was over a year ago, to fix incompatabilities with Tiger.

    VPC runs on G4 and G5 systems (not well, as you found out), but not on the latest and greatest.

    When I had it installed, I found that I rarely used it except to jump into a mapping program. If there’s a work around, not matter how kludgy, I’m tempted to use the work around than enter the VPC world.

    Sadly, I may have to purchase Parallels if only to run IE so that I can see the navigation frame of a website constructed with .Net frameworks. And that would be the only reason.

  2. Will says:

    July 20th, 2006 at 9:00 am (#)

    VPC
    http://media.arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/parallels.media/32_moleman1.gif

    Parallels (per Ars)
    http://media.arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/parallels.media/33_moleman2.gif

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