Recently MS has finally announced the successor to Virtual PC 2004 – Virtual PC 2007 and has even committed to providing the new version too free. The good news is that both Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005 R2 are now free from Microsoft. This way my business environment is always simple, clean and always working – I don’t get into a broken/slow PC while doing a client presentation/deal document. So my development environment (Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0, VS 2005, SQL Server 2005, EasyStruct 4.5, etc) is itself an image – I run the VPC image only when I want to develop. I also have VPC images for doing Beta Development, like MOSS 2007, WinFX (.NET 3.0), etc.
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In fact, on my laptop I have only basic software to do my daily job (Business Environment: Windows XP, Office 2003, Antivirus, Windows Live Messenger, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Nero Burner, WinRAR, PDF Printer/Reader) everything else runs out of Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 (or Virtual Server 2005 R2). Nowadays, I use a vanilla Windows XP/Windows 2003 VPC image and use it to try out new software. Virtualization is a very handy arsenal in an IT Pro toolkit, especially if you are managing a large number of servers with different software combinations for development/testing (or) if you are like me trying out various OS and software.īusiness and Dev Environment – Keep them separate