Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Microsoft® Virtual PC 2004, a desktop virtual machine solution to help technical professionals migrate legacy applications toWindows® XP. Scheduled to be available by the end of 2003, Microsoft Virtual PC offers customers a cost-effective safety net to ease their migration to Microsoft Windows XP Professional and a toolto help accelerate the development, testing, deployment and support of PC applications. Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 allows enterprise customers to run multiple operating systems on one PC, so employeescan run critical legacy applications on an interim basis while information technology (IT) professionals proceed with the migration to Windows XP Professional.
“Our enterprise customers have told us that virtual machine technologies are crucial for their migration needs,” said Rob Short, corporate vice president in the Windows division at Microsoft. “Microsoft Virtual PC allows those customers to benefit from the gains in reliability, security and productivity of Windows XP, while also being able to run their critical legacy applications.”
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