{"id":8829,"date":"2007-02-19T19:17:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2007-02-19T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"virtual-pc-2007-rtm-and-free-to-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8829","title":{"rendered":"Virtual PC 2007 RTM and Free to Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released the freely available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/virtualpc\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Virtual PC 2007<\/a> today.\u00a0 A 64bit and a 32bit version can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">downloaded<\/a>.\u00a0 From the little of the beta that I saw, anyone used to the 2004 version will not have a big shock.\u00a0 The big change from 2004 is the added support of Windows Vista.<\/p>\n<p>This product is free.\u00a0 I will say it again.\u00a0 FREE!\u00a0 There is absolutely no reason that anyone working in mdium to large scale IT infrastructure should not have something like this on their PC for testing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AD scenarios<\/li>\n<li>Application packaging<\/li>\n<li>OS deployment<\/li>\n<li>Application distribution<\/li>\n<li>Application testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will admit that I am hooked to VMware snapshots so that&#8217;s the way I&#8217;ve gone.\u00a0 But I have happily used Virtual PC 2004 (in fact I bought it for my team the week it was initially released, way back when).\u00a0 Virtual Machines have saved my bacon so many times I can&#8217;t count them.\u00a0 In fact, every whitepaper I&#8217;ve written and every presentation I&#8217;ve given in the last year have been based on virtual machines.\u00a0 Go to a confenerence like IT Forum, TechEd, MMS, WinConnections and you&#8217;ll see almost\u00a0nothing but VM&#8217;s on the big screens.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not using this software, do yourself a massive favour and download VPC 2007 now and see what it can do for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released the freely available Virtual PC 2007 today.\u00a0 A 64bit and a 32bit version can be downloaded.\u00a0 From the little of the beta that I saw, anyone used to the 2004 version will not have a big shock.\u00a0 The big change from 2004 is the added support of Windows Vista. This product is free.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virtual PC 2007 RTM and Free to Download&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}