Re: Running Vista Virtual PC on Win 7

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> "Michael Chare" <> wrote in message
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>> I see that the Windows 7 Virtual PC is only freely available on Windows 7
>> Ultimate.
>
> That's incorrect. Where did you see that...?
>

Google gave me
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

I pressed the 'Get Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC now" button

On Step 3 selected Home Premium 32 bit and English

Saw error message"

"You are not eligible to download Windows XP Mode. You must have Windows 7
Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate to run Windows XP Mode. To upgrade
visit Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade"




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Michael Chare

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:45:12 -0000, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<> wrote:

>"Michael Chare" <> wrote in message
>news:...
>
>>>> I see that the Windows 7 Virtual PC is only freely available on Windows
>>>> 7
>>>> Ultimate.
>>>
>>> That's incorrect. Where did you see that...?
>>
>> Google gave me
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
>>
>> I pressed the 'Get Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC now" button
>>
>> On Step 3 selected Home Premium 32 bit and English
>>
>> Saw error message"
>>
>> "You are not eligible to download Windows XP Mode. You must have Windows 7
>> Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate to run Windows XP Mode. To upgrade
>> visit Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade"
>
>And from that you inferred that Windows 7 Virtual PC was freely available
>only on Windows 7 Ultimate...?

Well, to be fair, if you select anything other than Ultimate or Pro,
you get denied access to WinVPC from that page, since they're checking
for XPMode licensing first.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/