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Virtual PC on Mac got at least one major release after Microsoft bought Connectix, but that was right around the same time as Apple's transition to Intel. MS a
by JonathonW 5y ago
Virtual PC on Mac got at least one major release after Microsoft bought Connectix, but that was right around the same time as Apple's transition to Intel. MS apparently didn't consider it worthwhile to port VPC to run natively on Intel OSX (which would've been a pretty big change in direction for the product-- moving it to native virtualization like on Windows rather than the dynamic recompilation approach that the Mac version used).
- mobilio 5y agoAlso at this time processors for Windows comes with virtualization extensions - VT-x and AMD-V. So Microsoft focused on making their product better just for Windows. Later they're expanding into Virtual Server and famous "Windows XP Mode" on Win7. At the end everything was merged into Hyper-V.
- Melatonic 5y agoEven though I do not use it professionally I think Hyper-V is very underrated - it is built in for free to many versions of Windows 10 and is pretty easy to get a VM running even by the average power user type person.