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Windows 7's 'XP mode': Right idea, wrong technology Why Microsoft's decision to implement a VM-based legacy compatibility solution is a dumb move
Well, it finally happened. After years of patching and tweaking the Windows runtime to preserve backward compatibility (and placate its perpetually cranky customer base), Microsoft has finally said enough is enough. With Windows 7, it's putting the legacy Win32 API genie back in the bottle -- or much more precisely, tucking it inside a custom-integrated virtual machine where it, and its notoriously hard-to-kill XP underpinnings,Office 2007, can coexist peacefully alongside newer,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, hipper versions of Windows.
It's a great idea, on paper.
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Keeping the proverbial east (legacy) and west (managed) sides of Windows separate while allowing users to seamlessly access both environments is a feature that has been on IT wish lists forever. Unfortunately, by taking the VM route -- Microsoft is bundling a tweaked version of Windows XP with SP3 inside an improved Virtual PC image with a kind of coherence-mode rip-off -- Microsoft is ignoring other technologies that might have proven a better fit for that part.
I'm speaking, naturally,Office 2007 Download, of application virtualization. The capability to isolate legacy purposes into their own separate, virtualized runtime environments has long been one of the major selling points for this product category. And few vendors have as a lot experience and technical competence in this segment as Microsoft. The company's App-V platform is one particular of the pioneering application virtualization products, with thousands of successful installations.
With App-V, there's no need for a clumsy VM with its myriad integration and configuration management headaches. App-V virtualized programs run at or near native speed, with full fidelity, yet their impact on the system is negligible: All registry and file system modifications are sandboxed, keeping the local environment clean and immune from DLL hell and other legacy Windows baggage.
It's an elegant solution, and it begs the question: Why isn't Microsoft using App-V as opposed to shoehorning a copy of a XP into a slow, bloated VM that uses a bunch of screen-scraping smoke and mirrors to make it look like a program has been "integrated" with the local desktop?