08/30/2004, 1:15pm, EDT
Monday, August 30th
MS to release Virtual PC 7 to manufacturing this week
The official announcement, which may be made as early as tomorrow at Apple Expo 2004, would be eight months after Virtual PC 7 was first announced at Macworld Expo San Francisco earlier this year and more than 14 months after Apple shipped its first G5-based Macs. Microsoft released Virtual PC 6.1.1 last year with security fixes, but the version was not compatible with the G5 processor in Apple's latest Power Macs.
Sources tell MacNN that Microsoft's Virtual PC 7 will bring better for support for (USB) peripherals, speed improvements, G5 compatibility, dual-processor support, and better native support for graphic cards. While waiting for the release of Windows XP SP2, Microsoft said it also fixed several security issues that were revealed as part of a standard code audit after the acquisition of the product from Connectix.
Earlier this summer, Microsoft began shipping Office 2004 Standard Edition to customers who had ordered the Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition and said that it would follow with the full Professional version (with Windows XP Professional) once Virtual PC 7 became available.
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I hope that's the case, because there's a shoebox full of old PC games at home I haven't played in years.