Re: VPC Officially Dead
- From: Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:20:11 -0500
In article
<41537720-110e-4bfa-aea1-dcf5cf7c6d1e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Power <paulkpower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 20, 4:19 pm, Helpful Harry <helpful_ha...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article
<753e57eb-9193-44fb-aa10-e6f3e3b55...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Power <paulkpo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 16, 7:13 pm, Fred Horvat <f...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Last week it was announced that VPC for the Mac 7.03 was the end of the
line
for the product. Microsoft will not create a patch to fix any issues
with
OSX 10.5 Leopard.
It was reported
herehttp://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/12/12.10.shtml
It is not any surprise to me that Microsoft decided not to put any more
effort in the product. There will be no more PPC Macs made and if
anything
a shrinking base of PPC Macs being retired as machines get older and as
users purchase Intel machines.
I'll continue to use VPC on my machine as I have the need to run a few
Windows apps. Plus I test out Linux distros and other odd Ooperating
Systems to see how they are. There are other products that work with
Leopard on a PPC Mac but their emulated speed is not as good a VPC. I
have
iEmulator and I did test it out under Leopard and it worked fine. A bit
slower than VPC but a usable product if you don't need USB. Plus it is
$20
for existing VPC users. Then there are Open Source products BOCHS and
QEMU
one could use.
Well, Fred, you got it WRONG again. VPC is NOT dead. Let me
repeat...>VPC IS NOT DEAD!! You really do have to stop trying to kill
support off for this product.
Try reading the article again. Microsoft has released a statement
stating that there will be no support for VPC running on a Mac that is
running 10.5.x (Leopard).
**VPC is STILL supported on PPC's running 10.2.8-10.4.x for VPC 7 and
Mac OS 9.2.2, 10.1.5, 10.2.1- 10.4.x for VPC 6
The "support" is really non-existant since they won't be releasing any
new updates. The only real "support" is via the "help desk" / website.
VirtualPC (or at least the MacOS version) has been a dead product for a
while now.
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)-
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Sorry, Harry. You are also wrong.
LIVE tech support is still alive and kicking. If you have a G3, G4, or
G5 and you need help with VPC, AND if you are NOT running Leopard,
tech support is available and will continue to be available thru 2009.
You two are arguing at cross-purposes because you're using different
senses of the word "support". One of you is talking about technical
support (e.g. answering questions), the other is talking about
development support (fixing bugs, adding new features).
If you call Technical Support, and the problem you're having turns out
to be a real problem with the program, the best they can do is suggest
workarounds or provide sympathy. If there are no programmers working on
the product, they can't get it fixed.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
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