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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by TheRealPomax on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:39AM (#16258509)
It's funny how for many people who make this argument, they'll happily drop $500 for a top of the line gfx card to keep up with gaming, but <$200 for VMWare Workstation is somehow too much money to keep up "being able to play everything older than a few years" on the PC.

(That might not be you, but wanting an OS from 2018 to play games from 1998 or before natively sure makes it sound like it)

I went the other way: if I want to play my old games, I fire up a fullscreened VM, because I don't care what OS I'm hiding when I'm enjoying a nice bit of classic gaming, running in what it thinks is the OS it should be running in. Whatever atrocity the next windows is going to be, as long as VM makers release an update for their software, as far as gaming goes: I have no reason to care.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by mkup on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:46AM (#16258566)
Yes, but would VMWare Workstation run under Windows 10 Polaris?
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by TheRealPomax on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:24PM (#16268139)
Once it's out? Pretty sure VMWare's entire business is about making sure their products work on "current operating systems"? Why would you think that VMWare won't update in lock-step?
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by wila on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:55AM (#16258647)
In a virtualization container perhaps?
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by tonyedgecombe on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:32PM (#16260795)
The article mentions remote virtualisation, run your win32 apps in Azure I would guess.
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