Windows 7 Sony disables Windows 7 XP Mode in Vaio

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In the Personal computer globe, it helps make small feeling to create your newest laptops potential proof on the BIOS level,Windows 7 Code, but that’s just what Sony is up to with a recent decision to disable hardware virtualization on all current Vaio laptops using Intel Core 2 Duo processors, due to security concerns.
This may seem like an esoteric BIOS setting, but it’s required by any user hoping to use Windows 7’s upcoming Windows XP mode, which allows XP applications to be virtualized without worrying about whether or not they will break,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, like they might under Windows Vista.
Sony’s response is typically corporate: “[We have] received very little if any requests to enable VT technology up until very recently,” said Xavier Lauwaert, Sony’s Senior Manager for Product Marketing.
“In addition, our engineers and QA people were very concerned that enabling VT would expose our systems to malicious code that could go very deep in the Operating System structure of the Laptop and completely disable the latter.”
But that’s not to say they aren’t listening to their customers. “For these two reasons we have decided,Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Student, until recently, not to enable VT. However, with the advent of XP Virtualization, there is impetus for us to relook at the situation and I can share with you that we will enable VT on select models.”
He continued, “Though, I fear to say that the Z series will not be part of our VT-enabling effort. Indeed,Office 2007 Ultimate Key, we will focus on more recent models.”
In short, if you are intending on running Windows 7 XP Mode,Windows 7 Activation, don’t by a Z series Vaio… at least not without rolling up your sleeves for some deep system hacking.
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