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Microsoft provides a free Windows XP SP3 virtual machine image to run on Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002 https://www.m

by wcoenen 10y ago

Microsoft provides a free Windows XP SP3 virtual machine image to run on Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=800... I'm not sure if the same thing is still available for Windows 10.

xorblurb 10y ago
Nope. Reserved to Win7 (and then; only Pro). Even third party VM software able to run it implements a custom check to make sure your host is Win7 otherwise they refuse to run it. This is quite concerning, from a backward compat POV, because it means that it only has deferred the incompatibilities it proposed to solve, and that deferring is completely artificial. Honestly MS is not that good on backward compat. They are good on the story, so/so on the facts. But I prefer that to being stuck in the dark ages of poor design and the poor security which comes with.