Virtual PC 7.0.3 released

[antony]

Although Virtual PC does not run on all current shipping Macs, it is not dead yet. Microsoft has updated Virtual PC 7.0.3 with a fix for security-related issues. (News from The Mac Observer)

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This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.

Virtual PC for Mac 7.0.3 Update can be downloaded from Microsoft website.

Microsoft released Virtual PC 7 in October 2004 with support for Power Mac G5. Fourteen months after Apple announced the transition plan to use Intel chips (June 2005), Microsoft decided not to  make Virtual PC in Universal Binary in August 2006.

[sandbox]

Thanks Antony...just finished A-OK!
new firefox upgrade and Quicktime 7 while i'm here.

it did correct a screen size issue where i had to scroll up to see the Start button, that's gone, and i see something called a gigaRange on the desktop that i'm not familiar with.

It's using 256 mb of memory to run, without checking my records I can't say how much that's changed. It seems faster as well, not Corvette fast, but it has picked up a bit....
It did add some fancy Permissions when i ran Disk Utility, so I ran it twice, don't know what's up wit dat?

brought to you by Virtual PC 7.0.3, Windows XP Pro and FireFox 2

[Parker]

When i used VPC, i used it with Windows 2000 and provided it with about a virtual 600mhz of power and 192mb of RAM (plenty for W2k).

There was no reason for Microsoft to write a VPC for the intel chip, since what VPC is emulating is an intel chip and it'd be pointless to emulate itself (and they probably figured someone would find a way to run Windows on a mac.