Microsoft last week described a different way to use desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.
IT pros with Microsoft's Software Assurance (SA) licensing in place within their organization can use a new physical-to-virtual migration (P2V migration) tool that's no longer in beta release. The tool works with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and/or System Center Configuration Manager plus the Disk2VHD virtual hard disk solution from the Windows Sysinternals Web portal. It can package older Windows desktops into virtual machines that will run on Windows 7 PCs.
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