from Paul Thurrott of WindowsITpro.com

Earlier this week, Microsoft shipped a beta version of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to testers, providing customers with the first version of Virtual PC to natively support Windows Vista. Virtual PC 2007 creates a virtual machine (VM) environment in which a guest OS can run in a window under the physical machine’s host OS.

Virtual PC 2007 is a 32-bit application and supports only 32-bit guest OSs, but it can run under both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. It supports Intel’s and AMD’s microprocessor hardware virtualization features and provides dramatically better performance than does Virtual PC 2004. I was told that Virtual PC 2007 will support Vista’s Windows Aero UI, but the current beta supports only the Vista Basic UI.

Microsoft customers who want to sign up for the Virtual PC 2007 beta can do so at the Microsoft Connect Web site at  https://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=874&wa=wsignin1.0

Like its predecessor, Virtual PC 2007 will be free when the final version is released early next year.

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