The Real Corrupt companies... It would be more fruitful..

This is truely a sad day in history. I bet Microsoft WILL stop making this product for all but M$crap products. Either that, or they will make the software for other operating systems so bad that noone will want to use it. Way to go Connectix.....NOT!!

I would not worry about this buyout. Just a quess, but Microsoft might include this tech with the upcoming Longhorn to help users play older games and applications.

If this was done well, it would be easy to play something like the first Command & Conquer under Windows 95 emulation, where Microsoft could have these legacy operating system files working with this tech so there would be no DLL hell when trying to play and run old games and software.

This is some really great news if you ask myself.

"Microsoft will market the technology to businesses as a method to migrate to the latest operating systems without sacrificing existing applications." so MS bought a product that has the ability to put Guest OS's on your computer, and MS won't do anything to screw over linux with this? HA MS bought this, because they thought they could make more money (essesially with Mac users who want to use windows apps) MS will probably set it up so that if it can't find a windows version number, on the disk image that it won't boot lol then you'd also have to activate it, let MS know every time yoou install it, I switched to Linux, and I'm happy with it, MS can crawl under a rock for all I care.

Bye VMWare, you've been netscaped. :-(

You mean VMWare is going to turn into a crappy, buggy application that ignored standards up until version 6? As a person who still has to take the nightware that is Netscape 4.X into consideration when designing pages I can tell you that its death was noones fault but its own.

VMware isn't going anywhere. Virtual PC doesn't have anywhere near the amount of advanced functionality that VMware has. And with Microsoft taking over Virtual PC, I seriously doubt this will change. They'll probably dumb down Virtual PC even more, like they've been doing with all their other products lately.

Right, IE 3 wasn't as good as Netscape either, but well it was "free".

riight, you are still developing for technology that is how old? If you were developing for IE 4 you would complain about that too.

I do program for IE4 also. It happens to be 10x's as standard compliant as Netscape 4.X. Ask any web designer. In response to your post above, IE did not start to dominate until the 4's came out. IE 3 actually didn't make much of a dent on Netscape.

You can believe what you want about Microsoft but if Netscape had put out a good product they would have held onto at least 30-40%.

All I have say is ph***!!!! M$ took over my favorite VM sofware. BETTER then VMware with it's unstableness and bulky a** memory footprint and all those damn services getting installed out of friggin nowhere (like 3or4 extra useless services). Now it's all over. I'll have to drop VPC like a bad habit cause you just KNOW MS is gonna ph*** it up and PURPOSELY put in code that will make competitor OS's run in the VM much more slowly and unsable-like.

I'm furious about this s***. VPC was the best and now it's gonna go to a buffer-overflowed' every-other-day-a-new-exploit ridden piece of warm steamy SHYT. Welp, back to VMware for me! hehe hope v4 has gotten rid of all the slowdowns and bugs. =)

Nah, IE was better than Netscape at version 3 even. That's when I made the switch.

"you just KNOW MS is gonna ph*** it up and PURPOSELY put in code that will make competitor OS's run in the VM much more slowly and unsable-like"

I think this is a very valid concern. I can't imagine MS putting ANY effort into making e.g. Linux run well inside their VM software. I really wouldn't be surprised if they dropped support for all non-MS operating systems completely.

Sure IE3 was a lot better. Unless you wanted to actually browse the Web. It was missing a lot of features Netscape had at the time and the rendering was just horrid.

I'm afraid not. IE 3 supported various standards that Netscape didn't offer until much later, such as CSS. Speed-wise it blew away Netscape; it loaded much faster. (No, IE's 'shell integration' didn't exist at that time.) And it didn't crash nearly as much as Netscape. (IE 4, on the other hand was a bit unstable.)

All in all I found it to be the better browser.

To each his own. IE3 had a lot of problems (such as crashing when trying to navigate somewhere while a page was loading), and lacked a lot of JavaScript support which was used by many sites. It may have had CSS support (which was an excellent move by Microsoft), but almost no sites used CSS in those days.

Interesting,

You are all looking at this from a close minded standpoint. MS has many reasons to support and promote the VM ability with linux and MS. Would be alott easier to advertise Windows Servers to enterprises as they could slowly migrate to Windows servers without the loss of legacy software and increased hardware costs. MS had already annouced a VM core into Windows Server codenamed Blackcomb due after longhorn, this just seals that rumor.

MS software is not as buggy as you all are even making it seem. You have to blame developers that code for MS technologies. A fresh install of MS products are very solid for their deployment base. After you add drivers and apps from various sources you began to obtain an unstable system thats not MS fault.

I personally feel this is a great buy from MS as i can see it allowing people to run more technologies on todays ever faster pcs. MS will either fully implement it in windows core or keep it in the server side and sell it as a standalone for professional users it wont become "weaker" or "crappier".

I'm still waiting for my Midnight Madness t-s*** to arrive.

I don't have a problem with this whole thing but actually, I would like to see some old fassion dos emulation. Like, real dos and then MS dos, I have some old school games that I'd love to play but I don't feel like creating more partitions than I already have just to play a couple of games whos total file size combined is less then 10 MB.