Posted on 10/22/2009 8:16:15 AM PDT by bcsco
Through its XP Mode, Microsoft Windows 7 can extend the useful life of legacy applications and peripherals.
With a feature called XP Mode in Windows 7, Microsoft hopes to make it easier to use legacy applications and equipment. In this video, ZDNet’s Ed Bott, blogger of Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report, shows you how the new XP Mode works and suggests a few possible uses for the feature.
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I think I’ll run XP mode in XP instead.
What I don’t understand is why they didn’t build into the install to “move” your previous XP install into the “XP mode”, that would be such an easy upgrade for the users. Oh well, if they did all the stuff with software they should we geeks wouldn’t be able to show off.
Thank you. Why fix what ain’t broke? Win 7 is just a ploy to get us to shell out more cash. XP is just fine the way it has been, for years. Win 7 just breaks the software I use every day! Useless!
Windows 7 is intended as an upgrade to Vista; not XP. In fact you can't upgrade to Windows 7 from a Windows XP installation. I would suspect that's the overriding answer to your question.
Myself as well. But there have been a number of threads on Windows 7 these past few days, so I thought this would be of benefit.
Gulp - I'm terrified; need to find teenage geek kid.
That being said, the XP mode is awesome as it can run any thing that XP can from within Win 7. Who needs to dual boot.
I never went down the Vista path, but I really believe that Windows 7 is Worth upgrading too.
But hey, I will likely run XP on a couple of my machines until they die
I know, and that’s stupid. Especially when they put XP mode in the OS in the first place. They SHOULD have made it so if you installed 7 on a machine with XP it would put your existing XP in as the XP mode. The overriding answer is that they screwed up and missed a good opportunity to do something easy (given how close 7 is to Vista if Vista could upgrade from XP 7 could also if they’d bothered to port the code).
I’ll be waiting to hear if this works like it should. I have a MacBookPro with parallels and it’s important for my embroidery software to be able to run and be able to communicate with the embroidery machine. If it runs good I’ll make sure to update Parallels and buy 7 to load onto it, if not I’ll stay with what I have now.
I already know the answer: MS screwed up. They decided to ignore the fact that lots of people still are on XP and do a one version upgrade instead of the industry standard 2 versions. It’s not complicated, MS has a long history of screwing things up, if we’re lucky the lack of XP upgrade will be the biggest screw up in 7.
I understand. My wife has an embroidery machine, although a PC isn’t directly linked to it. She has a hub she attaches via USB with which she can transfer patterns to a machine data card. I just bought her one of those small Dell Netbooks. Now, instead of using my laptop, she can use her own PC. Yeah!
I installed XP mode earlier this week on my W7 Ultimate x64. It works. It doesn’t have video acceleration and I’m having some trouble with some device drivers. I’ll give it a full go this weekend.
It may be more basic than that. There’s more $ in buying a boxed operating system than in buying an ‘upgrade’. They felt ‘compelled’ to do something about the Vista issue. They didn’t feel compelled to do something about other legacy systems.
Per some version comparison charts, the XP Mode is NOT available in the Home edition of Win7.
FYI
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