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Window's Virtual PC on Macbook

Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by kalikat2003, Aug 11, 2006.

kalikat2003 Notebook Enthusiast

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Hey guys,

My university offers this program to students, and I'm not sure I actually need to put this on my mac. Any tips or info to share about this?

Thanks!

PHP:

haha ETA-- did a google search and found this out

Office 2004 and Messenger for Mac currently run on Intel-based Macs, but Virtual PC 7 does not at this time. Learn more about plans for the next version of Office for Mac and more in this FAQ.

from - http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtualpc

guess that answers that question!

kalikat2003, Aug 11, 2006

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xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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Microsoft officially announced dropping Virtual PC, they aren't going to be making it anymore, they just annouced this at the WWDC.

They said "Programming a new Virtual PC for the Intel-Macs would be like going back to Virtual PC 1.0" and said they are dropping it. So Virtual PC 7.0 is the last version ever.

xbandaidx, Aug 11, 2006

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zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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If you are looking for something like this, Parallels is a very good bet (and VMware is getting into this market too).

zadillo, Aug 11, 2006

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