Virtual PC 2007 Released...and it's free

In keeping with the trend of Microsoft changing the license for Virtual PC 2004 to a free license, it announced today the release of Virtual PC 2007 for free as well.

In the past, many looked at solutions such as VMWare as being a better alternative to Virtual PC. This was due to VMWare's optimized approach of processing computational instructions. For instance, VMWare workstation will work directly with the CPU's processor when possible as opposed to conventional emulators which only simulate the function of the CPU instruction. This allows for a much speedier performance.

Now, according to BetaNews.com, the newest version of Virtual PC "takes advantage of new hardware virtualization technology from both Intel and AMD."

Finally with this release being a free license product, Microsoft duels competing software companies such as VMWare and Parallels.