{"id":1673,"date":"2007-02-19T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2007\/02\/19\/virtual-pc-2007-released-and-available-for-free-download\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:30:23","slug":"virtual-pc-2007-released-and-available-for-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/virtual-pc-2007-released-and-available-for-free-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual PC 2007 Released and Available for Free Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual machines are great for testing product installation and update scenarios. I use Virtual Server currently with a base platform and undo disks enabled to test installation. When done &ndash; no matter what the impact is to my virtual machine &ndash; I click &#8220;Turn off Virtual Machine and Discard Undo Disks&#8221;. Within seconds the machine is ready to use again in the same state with which it began: with my base platform installed.<\/p>\n<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/virtualpc\/\">Virtual PC 2007<\/a> was released and available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6\">download for free<\/a>. Virtual PC and Virtual Server use the same file formats but provide different levels of functionality. I use Virtual PC at home currently because of the great drag-n-drop interface. It allows me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/virtualpc\/debug.mspx\">debug applications<\/a> at any level without requiring a separate machine.\n<\/p>\n<p>If you have hardware-assisted virtualization you&#8217;ll see additional improvements in performance. Other new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/virtualpc\/overview.mspx\">features<\/a> are available as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>Download today. It&#8217;s free!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual machines are great for testing product installation and update scenarios. I use Virtual Server currently with a base platform and undo disks enabled to test installation. When done &ndash; no matter what the impact is to my virtual machine &ndash; I click &#8220;Turn off Virtual Machine and Discard Undo Disks&#8221;. Within seconds the machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Virtual machines are great for testing product installation and update scenarios. I use Virtual Server currently with a base platform and undo disks enabled to test installation. When done &ndash; no matter what the impact is to my virtual machine &ndash; I click &#8220;Turn off Virtual Machine and Discard Undo Disks&#8221;. Within seconds the machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}