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It's about time Windows actually stops dragging the concrete boots around (riddiculous backwards compatibility) - it's infuriating how broken stuff in Windows i

• golergka 11y ago
  > Just do an XP fork for VM to run all the legacy stuff on and start fixing stuff already, damn! Oh yeah. I can just see "most people" powering up VMs to run their outdated broken software that they depend on. Why I'm sarcastic? Because the situation is completely broken, there's no right solution. All that's left is to ridicule all sides of the argument, because everyone who thinks that there is a way to make it right is wrong.
  • kbutler 11y ago
    The point is that the xp vm would be transparent. Microsoft has done various compatibility layers before - see windows on windows and windows on windows 64. The core question is how much isolation optimizes future development while maintaining the ability to run older applications.
    • nitrogen 11y ago
      That even already exists. You can run a built-in XP virtual machine on some newer editions of Windows, and I think it even has seamless windows.
• chiph 11y ago
  MSFT would have to provide that. I tried to reinstall XP on one of my Parallels VMs the other month and it failed because the license couldn't be validated. Support has ended, so the Microsoft licensing service no longer allows new installs, even for developers.