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Making Vista run legacy applications is easy
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Well looks like I need to bust another myth about Vista not being able to run legacy applications. 
Mary Jo Foley writes that Virtual PC might theoretically give Vista a way to run all those legacy applications that will break in Windows Vista. Mary Jo opened her blog by saying:
"Microsoft has made available for download Beta 1 of Virtual PC 2007, the version of its desktop virtualization software that — at least in theory — will give Windows Vista users one way to run many of their existing apps without problem on Microsoft’s next-gen Windows."
Although Mary Jo later mentions the "Application Compatibility Toolkit" in passing, she never linked to it or explained what it was so the basic message is one of fear and uncertainty that getting legacy pre-Vista applications to work is a long shot. I’m going show you what it really takes to get legacy applications working and why Virtual PC is totally unnecessary for the purpose of running legacy applications. » Making Vista run legacy applications is easy | George Ou | ZDNet.com
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