26th September 2004, 1:20 PM
That doesn't sound plausible at all! Virtual PC is designed to emulate Windows on a Macintosh. Retooling it for the XBox for emulation on the XBox 2 would be an undertaking of such epic proportions as to make "handing over" the project a bad idea. Not only that, why would the VPC7 crew need to wait until the XBox team was "done with" it? I mean, even if they did decide to tweak with VPC7 for their own needs, it's not like anything they did would be incorporated into the final version of VPC7. They might as well just be working on their own seperate build, and in fact, there's no reason why that shouldn't be the case, and that's if they WERE going to do this.
Sorry, this whole rumor, and it's very flimsy "proof" (oh no, VPC7 is delayed? It MUST be this!) is just not going to cut it.
Now on the other hand, MS deciding to make the system backwards compatible isn't that far fetched. It's this rumor that's a stretch.
Sorry, this whole rumor, and it's very flimsy "proof" (oh no, VPC7 is delayed? It MUST be this!) is just not going to cut it.
Now on the other hand, MS deciding to make the system backwards compatible isn't that far fetched. It's this rumor that's a stretch.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)