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Why even running a Windows 10 instance in that case? Esp. if it's for backward compat with old crap; run a Win 2k, it will be lighter. And only marginally less
by temac 5y ago
Why even running a Windows 10 instance in that case? Esp. if it's for backward compat with old crap; run a Win 2k, it will be lighter. And only marginally less maintained, which does not even matter if you isolate like that anyway.
- whereistimbo 5y agoBut could you obtain it legally though?
- gambiting 5y agoIt wasn't hugely advertised, but Win 7 had something called "XP Mode" where it would literally start windows XP in a VM completely in the background, and any program you wanted to start would actually run inside that VM, with windows drawing the application window like a native Win 7 app. It was magical in how well that worked. And yeah, MS just provided a special XP image for this, you didn't need a separate licence for it.
- whereistimbo 5y agoYou could request Windows 2000 if you are: Volume License consumer (through downgrade) or Visual Studio subscriber (not for commercial use)