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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by derefr on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:15PM (#7512128)
The "container" I run my Windows apps on in Linux is, amusingly-enough, a VM running Windows XP.

I think Microsoft would be very smart to release a multiplatform replacement for W7/8's Windows XP Mode. Presumably it'd be an even-more-stripped-down version of Windows Embedded 8, with no shell, and all background services configured to only start on request.

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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by marcosdumay on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:11PM (#7512428)
It's just missing a way to easily add shortcuts for the contained software into the container DE.

But I think that if Microsoft releases a multiplataform replacement of XP mode, they'll turn the slow fade of Windows into irrelevance into a tremendously fast fading of Windows into irrelevance. Yep, that'd be great, and maybe even good for Microsft (they could focus on software that people actualy want - they have some), but I don't think they want it.

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