Comments on: Microsoft offers free Virtual PC 2004 download

By: darkbeing32

darkbeing32 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:53:49 +0000

cant open it! it says it has a missing file. MSI.DLL to be exact.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:26:05 +0000

Like lan said you can’t natively do it, but you can emulate it…

http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:19:48 +0000

There’s no possible way to natively boot Windows on a PowerPC-based machine (i.e. Mac). Reason? The PPC runs a different instruction set than x86-based machines. So, it’s almost like expecting you to perform all of your every day tasks in a foreign language you don’t understand. Simply can’t be done.

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:24:53 +0000

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By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:22:54 +0000

Anyone know how to boot windows on a power pc mac? Surely all the time that power pc mac’s have been around, someone has hacked a way to boot windows!
I mean I am by far no hacker my self but it does not seem that hard… VPC 7 and Guest pc 1.9 are so slow even running win98. I am about to order a powerbook G4 to go with my ibook. Because intel macs are so much more $ right now? Any thoughts. Thanks….

By: Matt Wall

Matt Wall — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:16:04 +0000

LOL! My hamster died!

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:49:10 +0000

Post corrected. My apologies for the misinformation due to my failure to verify the source. Virtual PC 2004 (PC) is being offered for free download. No available free download for Mac users.

By: Mark Fleser

Mark Fleser — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:48:33 +0000

OK, so where is the actual download link for OS X? As mentioned above the link is only for windows machines.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:25:46 +0000

Of course PPC is the PowerPC chip. I’ve owned a computer containing every major variation, from the 601 to the G4 (okay, so no G5, but still…)

What I’m saying is that the link mentioned in the article only goes to the Windows version of VirtualPC, meaning that I believe that the Mac/PowerPC version is /not/ free. No where on the Mac VPC page does it mention it being free. So, sadly, being a PPC user I can still whine about not being able to run Windows for free.

By: Brainnut

Brainnut — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:05:23 +0000

Virtual PC 2004 is only for Windows machines to run Windows operating systems. The Mac version is called “Virtual PC 7″. I don’t think this one will be given away for free. Also the Windows version of Virtual PC 2004 has been free for at least 6 months.