Windows 7 - XP Mode - No Rhyme Or Reason To CPU Support

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You have to buy the $320 Ultimate Edition of 7 to even use the XP Mode feature the way it was meant anyway.

It’ll run on Pro, but only Ultimate can boot up off of the VHD.

That Windows 7 Sins thing mentioned Microsoft doing these things btw, they’re called anti-features.

http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2007/fall/antifeatures/

Btw, Benjamin Mako Hill publishes the “Official Ubuntu Book” which is worth a read if you can get it from your library, I had to do an inter-library loan.

As for Steve Gibson, I really don’t even know where to begin. He was hacked by a script kiddie and built an entire “security” website to show it.

His “freeware” usually just turn off Windows services that you could have done with services.msc, or give you processor information that CPU ID software could (and more).

He’s also an alarmist. Thanks largely to his grandstanding and complaining, Microsoft crippled the Windows TCP/IP stack to remove raw socket support in the name of “security”.*

*Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac all have Berkeley raw sockets support and always have and you don’t see them turning into the security cesspool of Windows. Microsoft also limited the half-open connection limit since XP SP2 and you need to patch system files to get that back under control.

Try running nmap or maybe even Bittorrent on Linux and watch either of them blow past Windows.

[...] the Sempron models, you should have no issues running in XP Mode. But over at Intel, some of their cpu’s, even some of their new ones, do not support virtualization. There are going to be a lot of [...]

Hello,

I think one thing that is getting lost which is important to keep in mind is what Microsoft intended XP Mode to be used for. To wit, it is for business customers who have legacy line-of-business applications that do not work under Microsoft Windows 7 despite shims, the Application Compatibility Toolkit, et cetera. The fact that it was designed to work with CPUs with a certain feature set targeted at businesses and is only available for the Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Windows 7 should be a clear indicator that if you are a home user, then you should be looking at VirtualBox, VMware or even Microsoft’s own Virtual PC if you are unwilling to replace an old program with its Windows 7 counterpart.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hi Aryeh,
Thanks for the information and for you sharing your expertise with us.

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