Microsoft Acquires Virtual PC from Connectix
MacCentral reports that Microsoft has acquired Virtual PC from Connectix:
According to the article, the MacBU will work to make Virtual PC work even better both with Windows and Mac OS X
According to a statement by the director of marketing and business for the Macintosh Business Unit (of Microsoft), it appears Virtual PC for Mac will continue active development:
- "What this means for Mac users is that Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) will be responsible for supporting and shipping all current versions of Virtual PC and development for all future versions of the product"
According to the article, the MacBU will work to make Virtual PC work even better both with Windows and Mac OS X
The goal for the MacBU is to have seamless compatibility between Windows and Mac OS X, according to McDonough.
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117 months ago
I believe this is a very smart move indeed by Microsoft. They now have control over an application which was advertised to alot of switchers. I am looking forward to see if Microsoft will exploit or enrich this piece of software.
If they can make the damn thing move faster then good. The best thing would be if the made it invisible, so that you could just run x86 apps directly from OSX without the whole Windows interface. Don't know if that would work though...
If they can make the damn thing move faster then good. The best thing would be if the made it invisible, so that you could just run x86 apps directly from OSX without the whole Windows interface. Don't know if that would work though...
117 months ago
Well, if there is a positive side, at least it's that VPC will get even better...I hope...Hopefully better gaming performance if that's not being too optimistic.
117 months ago
But given Connectix's experience with the Mac platform and now officially working for Microsoft, does this mean that Windows could at some point in the far future be ported to run natively on Mac hardware???
Call me a conspiracist, but I don't like the fact that the one tool for us who need to run windows software on our macs, is now owned by microsoft...
"If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em" Bill Gates
Call me a conspiracist, but I don't like the fact that the one tool for us who need to run windows software on our macs, is now owned by microsoft...
"If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em" Bill Gates
117 months ago
Eek. This could turn into a major situation... I'm fairly sure VPC is pretty important to Apple, and to go around pissing Microsoft off after this isn't the best move in the world...
117 months ago
VPC allows for drag-'n'-dropping of PC files into os9/x and vice-versa; with the addition of MacLink Plus Deluxe (and I don't remember the name of the PC version), one can truly translate files between os's.
MS won't cancel the product.
MS won't cancel the product.
117 months ago
its quite obvious that m$ are gonna kill off vpc, why would they support a product who's whole use is to run their OS on a rival system?
if they do make it better then i can pretty much guarantee that m$ will be charging much more for their new OS's, makeing it more economical just to buy a new pc.
RIP VPC
if they do make it better then i can pretty much guarantee that m$ will be charging much more for their new OS's, makeing it more economical just to buy a new pc.
RIP VPC
117 months ago
If MS EOL's VPC, that might be the BEST thing that can happen!
The Apple would get involved and port WINE to run native to OSX, and without the NEED to buy WindowsXP OS, we have Windows compatiblity. Who knows, Apple might decide to do that anyways even if MS did continue the project. It would be a definite key selling point to OSX 10.3 or 10.4.
On the other hand, MS could port/update their WindowsXP OS code to the PowerPC, with an emulator only for application calls which would speed up the VPC tremdously.
Either way, I see it as an advantage.
The Apple would get involved and port WINE to run native to OSX, and without the NEED to buy WindowsXP OS, we have Windows compatiblity. Who knows, Apple might decide to do that anyways even if MS did continue the project. It would be a definite key selling point to OSX 10.3 or 10.4.
On the other hand, MS could port/update their WindowsXP OS code to the PowerPC, with an emulator only for application calls which would speed up the VPC tremdously.
Either way, I see it as an advantage.
117 months ago
well, at least we got a mostly decent OS X version of VPC before it dies. this is pretty sad-- i have a few predictions as to what MS will do here, and none of them are good.
pnw
pnw
117 months ago
to go around pissing Microsoft off
This does'nt necesserily meen that Microsoft are pissed off at Apple's business tactics.As the article stated they are first and foremost interested in Connectix Virtual Server.
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