Thread: Windows 10 - free upgrade to those with PC using Windows 7 or 8
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Old 01-28-2015, 04:27 AM   #166
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
What's this "practical sense"? There was nothing to prevent Microsoft from offering the existing 16 bit emulator on Windows 7 on an as-is basis,as a separate emulator. After all, Microsoft offered Virtual PC 2004 for $100 (which I bought) under XP, which would run any of their software (not hardware dependent) all the way back to DOS 1.0. Do you think that everybody is going to stop making x86 chipsets? (and all the existing ones are going to evaporate?)
Windows 8 will run virtual machines, so you can load up almost any operating system you want.
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