Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine, the company confirmed Friday — the first time Microsoft has relied on ...

In Windows 7, Microsoft will give customers the ability to run older applications from within a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC, a move that solution providers are ...

With the release of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions, Microsoft is including a little gift called XP Mode. XP Mode is a virtual machine running Windows XP. I call it a gift since to ...

Windows XP Mode, one of the most hyped features of Windows 7, was designed to integrate XP with Windows 7 so that you can run XP applications from directly inside Windows 7. Microsoft has touted the ...

New Microsoft OS lets you run Windows XP applications that aren't natively compatible with Windows 7 in a Virtual PC environment With Apple getting some good pickup lately around its Snow Leopard OS ...

The latest update to VLC adds native support for Arm-based PCs, adds a dark mode, and fixes an issue for Windows XP.

Microsoft's Scott Woodgate offers up a few more details around the once hush-hush virtualization project within Windows 7 now known as XP Mode As we discussed earlier this week, Microsoft is going to ...

XP appears to be the operating system that refuses to die — until now, that is. Windows 7’s most intriguing feature, Windows XP Mode, will finally kill off the operating system that refuses to die. As ...

The pedantic answer is no; "XP Mode" is partly an issue of licensing, and only the Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 are entitled to use a license of XP in a virtual machine.