Thoughts from Others About Windows 7’s XP Mode

An article on Ars Technica, dated today, 8 May, asks some questions about the Windows 7 XP Mode, and the reasoning behind it.

The article states that its author fully acknowledges the greed motive, on the part of Intel, to reap just a few more bucks, is what guided the decision to not support the type of hardware virtualization that Windows 7 requires.

At the same time, the author ponders if this could have been accidental on the part of Microsoft – you know, like it was a spur of the moment decision to do this, and the decision was just an off the cuff screw up by a company that over thinks everything.

Not to be too critical, the article gives, for those not fully understanding the way that the virtualization works, a very concise explanation, so it is useful to many.

I’m certain that there was a reason involving dollars, why Microsoft did this, but, unlike the author at Ars, I’m not convinced we will ever know the reason. It could be one of those things that, twenty years from now, people are still writing articles about, speculating the reasons for, and one or two authors swearing that the reason has been discerned only by them.

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