VMWare 5.5 supports Virtual PC images - sweet!

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VMWare just released the beta of VMWare 5.5, which is capable of opening and directly working with Virtual PC images. Very cool! Now that Microsoft has taken to releasing pre-installed VPC images for various products, I was considering installing VPC just to be able to use them.  Now I won't need to. Of course, VMWare has had a converter tool for a while, but directly working with VPC images without converting them is much nicer.

It looks like you can't directly change the native VPC image - changes are accumulated in a separate VMWare-specific file. But I think I can live with that limitation. For now, anyway. ;)

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This is cool!  VMware always seems to be at least one or two steps ahead of Virtual PC.  As most people that are close to me know, I am a huge Microsoft guy, but this is one of the few products that Microsoft just can’t seem to catch up to (or surpass) in features.