Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, revive your old software for free!

On a recent browse on the internet, especially the Microsoft’s web page, I’ve noticed a neat piece of software available free of charge. It is the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. This program is one of the virtualization programs available today for Windows users to have an extra system inside their machine while still using their installed Windows. Virtual PC is an amazing piece of software because it allows for multi system co-existences within a single computer. How is that an advantage to me? You might ask, imagine a piece of software that you have been using happily for the last 10 to 15 years, let’s say good old Lotus 123 (for those of you who have no clue what Lotus 123 is, it is an accounting software). Suddenly your friends brought you a state-of-the-art laptop that is using Windows Vista you’re your birthday, because you have been using Lotus 123 on your 286 that cost you thousands of dollars at the time, you years of data written just of that software.Obviously you would try to migrate the software to your new laptop right? Or else you might have to redo the last 10 years of accounting books from scratch. During installation of your Lotus 123 program, it was complaining about missing dependencies and was looking for a MS-DOS 5.0 driver. At that point you are completely lost in the world of software techno-babble. Because you have no idea what the heck is going on, you took your laptop back for services and have their technicians install Lotus 123 for you. The technicians suggests, after reviewing your software, that you buy another accounting software and redo everything from scratch. If you do your own accounting books, at this point you will be like “I’d rather stick to my 286 then…”.But don’t give up yet, this is why this post exists. With Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 you can bring your old system INTO your new system. Sounds confusing eh? It isn’t really. What it means is taking the software portion of your old system and virtualizes it. Once virtualized, the software portion exists in a Virtual Machine. This machine is part of your main system, so you can run all your old programs on your main system without further alterations. What you need to do is create a Virtual Hard disk on your system using Virtual PC, and on that Virtual Hard Disk install your old Operating Systems. Then install all your old programs on top of this Operating System. And Viola! You took your old antique system and transferred it into your new system. Advantages:
Your Old System, let’s say a 286 was running at less then 33 MhZ. Your need system, if running at 1 GhZ, you just increased the speed of your software by almost 30 times.
Your old software are now virtualized, so in the future if you upgrade your system again, all you have to do is copy the vhd file over and your system will come with you.Disadvantages:
You need to load up your laptop’s OS first before you can access your virtual System.
Works on Windows Xp Professional and Up, Windows Xp Home is not included.
If you corrupt your primary OS, both system dies with it. (So back up your Virtual system periodically)So head over to get the Software right away!Get Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.