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Microsoft’s MED-V Beta Allows you to run old apps in Vista

Posted 01/17/09 at 10:33:21 PM  by Justin Kerr

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When Windows Vista launched back in January of 2007, incompatibility was a term that was synonymous with the new OS.  Things have clearly improved since then, but almost everyone has at least one or two applications that simply refuse to run, and probably will never see an updated version. The problem for Microsoft grows even larger when you look at businesses that often have very custom mission critical applications that tend to be rather fussy about their operating environment. For these businesses, Vista was simply not an option. The use of virtualization as a solution to incompatibility is nothing new. Unfortunately in most cases it is an overkill approach that requires multiple OS licenses, and a beefy enough rig to support both the guest and host environments.

Those in search of a better solution are overjoyed by the launch of Microsoft's Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Beta, also known as MED-V. The release was announced on the official MDOP blog where Senior Product Manager Ran Oelgiesser seemed enthusiastic about the future of embedded virtualization. “For those of us on the MED-V product team, our primary goal was to deliver an enterprise virtualization solution for the compatibility challenges that IT teams have with some of their line-of-business applications, during the upgrade to new operating systems (like Windows Vista). With MED-V 1.0, you can easily create, deliver and centrally manage virtual Windows XP or 2000 environments (based on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007), and help your users to run legacy applications on their Windows Vista desktops”. MED-V is slated to leave beta in Q2 2009.

With the Windows 7 launch on the horizon, is this too little too late?

COMMENTS:5
TAGS: vista, windows, microsoft, Software, Virtual PC 2007, XP, Windows 2000, virtualization
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avatarFor the future maybe not

Submitted by shellpc on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 12:47pm

Maybe too little too late for now. But for the future it shows potential. If they carry the concept over for when the next os breaks vista apps(and we all know somewhere down the line this will happen), it could potentially save alot of headaches for comapnies with vista apps, even users who like playing old games (like me).

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avatarI don't think so

Submitted by soccer1105 on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 10:41pm

A bit late; yes absolutly.  But think about it.  Windows 7 is basickly still Vista.  Anything that still doesn't work with Vista likely won't work with Windows 7 either.  This is a great way for Microsoft to get people to finaly upgrade from their XP boxes and buy a new OS.  Of course I'm asuming that MED-V will be used for both Vista and Windows 7; otherwise I take everything back, and Microsoft is retarded.

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avataryea its too little too late......

Submitted by ghot on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 9:23pm

...everything in the upcoming should have been in Vista.....for $400 dollars  thats the least MS could have done.  MS has detroyed customer confidence, and I don't see them gettin it back anytime soon.  All this rushing out Windows 7 is just the same old story all over again.  It's still just XP  with bells and whistles.

Sure XP rollout wasn't perfect, but niether was it the absolute mess that Vista was/is.  Windows 7 is going to be exactly the same.  People are now wise to MS and have realized  (some the hard way) that MS doesnt care about its customers wants or desires.

MS needs to learn to give the people what they want....especially at such exhorbitant costs!  Until they do that, 15K layoffs is going to be the least of their problems.

The ONLY smart thing they have done in 8 years is extend XP's life cycle...and they didn't even do that for any honorable reasons.....they did it to hang on to what dwindling customer interest still remains.

Until computer languages advance far beyond where they stand now, MS is simply beating a dead horse....XP IS the best that they can be at this time.  No amount of hype or clever commercials is going to save them this time.

When large corporations and entire governments say NO TO VISTA.....it's a good time for MS to step back and LISTEN!

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avatarwindows 7 is not XP with

Submitted by pellier on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 7:08am

windows 7 is not XP with bells and whistles. The taskbar was improved and is much faster than vista.

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avatarIt took a long time for

Submitted by Digital-Storm on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 9:53pm

It took a long time for large corporations and entire governments to switch to XP.

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