[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“When Microsoft Corp. launches Virtual PC 2004, a Linux version
of the software won’t be along for the ride–at least not
officially.“Microsoft confirmed to eWEEK.com that an upgrade to Virtual
PC–software it purchased from Connectix Corp. in February that
lets enables users to run multiple PC-based operating systems
simultaneously on one workstation–is close to being released to
manufacturing. However, the new version will no longer offer
official support for BSD Unix, Linux, NetWare or Solaris on
Intel.“Carla Huffman, a product manager in the Windows Client
Division, explained, ‘Customers will be able to run most variants
of Linux, as well as NetWare and BSD, as guest OSes on Microsoft’s
version of Virtual PC. However, Virtual PC is optimized for Windows
around key customer scenarios…'”