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Virtual PC 7 for the Macintosh with G5 support has been released!

See the Microsoft VPC page for details. It's just in time to use with a new iMac G5! Some of the highlights of the release include:

  • G5 support (duh!)
  • Ships with Windows XP SP2
  • Some nice performance improvements, including making better use of the GPU
  • Zero configuration printing (if using Panther) - setting up printers used to be a major pain. Now, it's seamless, thanks to help from Panther's Postscript to PDF functionality
  • Refined UI - the preference and other UI has been refined to be easier to use
  • Usability improvements - various improvements were made in the setup and basic usage based on usability testing
Published Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:25 AM by dancre

Comments

 

BlueSkyIS said:

Released to publishing, yes. Can you get it now, no...unfortunately.
September 1, 2004 1:55 PM
 

Steve said:

It's a real shame that MS choose not to give a free/cheap upgrade for people who had to buy v6.1 whilst they waited for the delayed v7.
September 1, 2004 1:59 PM
 

JD on MX said:

New MS Virtual PC for Mac: Runs Windows apps on Macintosh. Newness includes a Windows XP SP2 security model and G5 support. More, and questions, at Dan Crevier's blog....
September 1, 2004 7:15 PM
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