Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement 205
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."
My best guess.... (Score:5, Interesting)
The bigger announcement from MS today (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:My best guess.... (Score:3, Interesting)
The CPU could do hardware virtualization, but by default it was disabled in the BIOS. Why? I have no idea...
At least it could be turned on. Sony computers with processors that support virtualization have the feature disabled in the BIOS and there is no option to enable it.
non VT runs dog slow (Score:3, Interesting)
i've run the desktop version of VMWare on my laptop and it's very slow compared to the VT version of Windows XP Mode on the same laptop.
it's the same old complaints. people want a feature but if it's not supported in hardware and runs extremely slow they will scream on the internets how stupid microsoft is for making it so slow on 6 year old hardware that otherwise runs Windows 7 very well
Re:My best guess.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Gah, politics (Score:1, Interesting)
One reason I'm glad I don't use Windows is because I don't have to get caught on the short end of the bullshit politics stick. Even if something shitty happens with my favorite distro/browser/app, there's others to choose from.
Begs != raises (Score:4, Interesting)
But this mistake is so common, so many people are using it this way, it is high time we start de linking "begs the question" from "petitio principii".