Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement

An anonymous reader writes "This week, Microsoft published a patch that allows Windows XP Mode to run on PCs without hardware-assisted virtualization. Which begs the question: Why the bizarro requirement in the first place? Was it an honest attempt to deliver an 'optimal' user experience? Or simply a concession to the company's jilted lover, Intel Corporation — 'a kind of apology for royally screwing up with the whole Windows Vista “too fat to fit” debacle,' as the blog post puts it."

Re:begs the question

[Anonymous Coward]

So, this begs the question on how to use "this begs the question".

Randall C. Kennedy

[jwietelmann]

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/21/2329249 [slashdot.org] Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud, Subsequently Given Front Page Story on Slashdot for Some Reason

Slashdot begs the question

[blueskies]

Why all the begging?

Re:Slashdot begs the question

[Anonymous Coward]

How die alone in 5 easy steps:

1. Go to college.
2. Major in math/engineering/CS.
3. Take a logic class from the philosophy department so you can blow it off and get an A.
4. Armed with your logic lingo, smugly correct everyone's technical misusage of the phrase "begs the question."
5. This isn't really a step. This is just the part where you die alone.

Re: Randall C. Kennedy who got fired by InfoWorld?

[FrankPoole]

WTF. Seriously? Slashdot is sourcing these jokers? This article is written by the same guy who was pretending to be the CTO of Devil Mountain Software and then got fired by InfoWorld after he was outed. What a tragedy....

Re:Randall C. Kennedy

[Anonymous Coward]

What makes you think Slashdot editors actually RTFA. They just got to the part were Microsoft was criticized and then hit the post button, who cares about the source of the information.

Re:Randall C. Kennedy

[Hal_Porter]

It looks to me as if he's just got a sockpuppet he uses to troll people. Trolling means page views and page views means ad revenue. What's the problem really? He was writing for a bunch of IT trade rags, not the New York Times.

Re:You know what begs the question?

[Hijacked Public]

I believe I've found the source of the taste drain. [twitter.com]

Re:My best guess....

[ThatsNotPudding]

Remember the SX series of 386s and 486s, with the FPU disabled, though still on the chip?

Grandpa, is that you?

Re:My best guess....

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought it was for when you were running on battery.