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Siden mange Mac-brugere har udtrykt bange anelser om fremtiden for VPC
efter at MS har købt det, finder jeg det passende at citere et uddrag af
den nyeste udgave af TidBits [forfatter Mark H. Anbinder]:

»The acquisition makes sense for Microsoft from multiple perspectives.
The interesting virtual server technologies let modern servers run
legacy applications and ease the hassle of running more than one
application per server. Virtual PC for Windows similarly helps desktop
users by letting them run legacy programs that are only compatible with
older versions of Windows. And Virtual PC for the Mac can only help
Microsoft sell more copies of Windows - in the end, Microsoft doesn't
really care what hardware you use to run Windows. For users, the
acquisition will probably mean future versions of Virtual PC with
significantly improved Windows performance, thanks to access to the
Windows source code, although it's entirely likely that support for
other operating systems such as Linux may be de-emphasized or dropped
entirely.«
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Som det kan ses kan Anbinder kun se to mulighe konsekvenser af købet for
Mac-brugere:
As can be seen, Anbinder only sees two possible consequences for Mac
users:

VPC-understøttelse af ikke-MS operativsystemer kan bliver fjernet
[Linux, OS/2].

VPC-understøttelse af Windows kan blive forbedret.
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Per Erik Rønne