Downloading Virtual PC 2004 SP1 from MS

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Colin Barnhorst - 25 Dec 2007 03:45 GMT

I don't know if the download page was ever removed or if it is back or what,
but I just downloaded VPC 2004 SP1 from Microsoft Downloads at this link. A
simple search on "virtual pc 2004" on the Download Center gets the link
also.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=6d58729d-dfa8-40bf-afa
f-20bcb7f01cd1&displayLang=en

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Sylvain Lafontaine - 26 Dec 2007 20:12 GMT

VPC 2004 SP1 is still available because VPC 2007 doesn't offert support for
the Virtual Additions for DOS and Win95 (or something like that).

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>I don't know if the download page was ever removed or if it is back or
>what, but I just downloaded VPC 2004 SP1 from Microsoft Downloads at this
>link. A simple search on "virtual pc 2004" on the Download Center gets the
>link also.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=6d58729d-dfa8-40bf-afa
f-20bcb7f01cd1&displayLang=en

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Colin Barnhorst - 26 Dec 2007 20:46 GMT

I well understand that. But we virtual machine MVPs were told a year ago
that MS policies would not allow VPC 2004 SP1 or even the VM Additions .iso
to remain on Windows Downloads once VPC 2007 went gold.

The concession made to us a year ago was to relax the distribution policy
and allow users to share the adds .iso over the net. That was when Steve
Jain put them up on his website. Now it appears that is no longer
necessary.

I didn't realize that MS changed its mind and so I posted this thread in
case others had not caught up with the change either.

> VPC 2004 SP1 is still available because VPC 2007 doesn't offert support
> for the Virtual Additions for DOS and Win95 (or something like that).
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>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=6d58729d-dfa8-40bf-afa
f-20bcb7f01cd1&displayLang=en

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Sylvain Lafontaine - 26 Dec 2007 22:53 GMT

Oups, sorry, I didn't notice it was you who was the OP.

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>I well understand that. But we virtual machine MVPs were told a year ago
>that MS policies would not allow VPC 2004 SP1 or even the VM Additions .iso
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>>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=6d58729d-dfa8-40bf-afa
f-20bcb7f01cd1&displayLang=en

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Colin Barnhorst - 26 Dec 2007 23:46 GMT

No prob.

> Oups, sorry, I didn't notice it was you who was the OP.
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>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=6d58729d-dfa8-40bf-afa
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