The biggest failure cause of Vista was its inablility to provide flexibility to users to run applications that work with Windows XP. To overcome this basic flaw, Microsoft has provided a Windows XP virtualization in Windows 7. This is called the “Windows XP Mode”.
This feature will be available in Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions, but not in Home Edition. This will deprive common users of this feature if they upgrade to the basic version of Windows 7.
This is not all. This feature requires lot more than just a higer version of the Operating System. It requires a processor which supports hardware based virtualization. This would mean that if you intend to use this feature and you have an old system, in all probability, this won’t work unless you upgrade your hardware.
Please ensure that your read through all the details before upgrading to Windows 7.
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