Download Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for Free
Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 as a free virtualization software to public for free download. Virtual PC 2004 is a virtual desktop computer BIOS and environment for Windows that allows users to run multiple instances of operating systems on a single computer by creating an entirely software-oriented computer with a disk-based image, running on a version of AMI BIOS that simulates as a physical computer to whatever guest operating system, and shares physical devices such as optical drive and network interface as a virtual machine.
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 (VPC) mainly supports Windows operating system as guest operating system on virtual machines, namely MSDOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, OS/2, Windows NT Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, and Other, which may be Linux. The virtual machine allows users to test a new development environment, experiment with applications on other operating system or simply try out a new configuration without changing the underlying OS.
Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 SP1 software requires Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Windows XP Professional or later, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later. The download size of VPC 2004 SP1 is 18.2 MB.
The new version of the virtualization software, Virtual PC 2007 for Windows Vista will also be available for free download. Virtual PC 2007 will enable support for Windows Vista and performance enhancements.
Download Virtual PC 2004.
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December 3rd, 2006 19:44
[...] Internet Explorer 6 Application Compatibility VPC Image is a Virtual PC (VPC) hard disk image and available for free download from Microsoft. The VPC image contains a pre-activated Windows XP SP2 installed IE6 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit to help facilitate testing and development on IE 6 to IE 7 websites transitions. Developers or users have to install Microsoft Virtual PC in order to load the image, which will launch a virtual machine installed with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2, so that users can launch IE7 and IE6 simultaneously with IE6 in the VPC on the same computer without the need to purchase additional Windows license. With the VPC image, users can upgrade to IE7 on their computer without compromise on the ability to use IE6 as and when needed. Internet Explorer 6 Application Compatibility image for Microsoft Virtual PC will expire on 1st April 2007, and supports Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 (VPC2004 for Windows XP and Windows 2003) and Virtual PC 2007 (VPC2007 beta for Windows Vista) needs to be installed and has a minimum of 1.5 Gig hard drive space free to expand the VHD file. [...]
February 21st, 2007 15:59
[...] has released Virtual PC 2007 for free download. Virtual PC 2007, an upgrade from Virtual PC 2004, is a competing product with VMWare virtualization software for Windows platform, allows users to [...]
April 11th, 2007 11:09
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January 20th, 2008 02:08
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January 23rd, 2008 04:00
Hi .. i’m using vmware 6.** and i want to play games in my virtual pc it as vmware is having only 18 mb of graphical mamory i cant play games in that … i want to know whether is it sopporting more then that …