{"id":41,"date":"2009-04-25T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T15:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-04-25T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T15:47:50","slug":"xp-mode-in-windows-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/25\/xp-mode-in-windows-7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"XP Mode in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a lighter note, I wanted to briefly comment about yesterday&#8217;s revelation of <a href=\"http:\/\/community.winsupersite.com\/blogs\/paul\/archive\/2009\/04\/24\/secret-no-more-revealing-virtual-windows-xp-for-windows-7.aspx\">Windows XP Mode in Windows 7<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>All in all, I think this is a pretty nifty idea. It is essentially the same as &#8220;Classic Mode&#8221; that Apple had in OS X for the first few versions. I question the decision to make this a business-only feature, but I will admit that consumers can more readily move to newer software than a business can. I will be curious to see how this behaves in practice, and whether it is as elegant and useful a solution as it appears on the surface. <\/p>\n<p>In other news, I am eagerly chomping at the bit to get my paws on the Windows 7 RC. I stopped using the beta a while ago, as I didn&#8217;t want to use a beta OS as a full time system. But depending on how the RC looks, I may try to make it my primary OS. Mostly because I want to see how some of the new window management \/ organization features work in day to day usage. And also just to see if it is worth the cost to upgrade from Vista. I have a feeling it will be, but there&#8217;s nothing like getting a new toy and trying out all the bells and whistles. ^^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a lighter note, I wanted to briefly comment about yesterday&#8217;s revelation of Windows XP Mode in Windows 7. All in all, I think this is a pretty nifty idea. It is essentially the same as &#8220;Classic Mode&#8221; that Apple had in OS X for the first few versions. I question the decision to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[166,7,21],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}