Xbox gamers around the globe have teamed up to request
Microsoft to make the next Xbox backwards compatible. You can find the petition
here.
In other news, Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM)
of Microsoft
Virtual PC 2004, the desktop virtual machine solution that could make possible
the backwards compatibility requested in the above petition. Microsoft acquired
this technology last year from Connectix Corporation. Virtual PC lets PowerPC architectures
run Microsoft Windows applications, access Windows networks and use Windows-only
Internet applications. If the Xbox successor uses a PowerPC architecture, this is
the technology that would make possible to run existing Xbox games,
designed for the x86 architecture, in the Xbox 2.
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