Does windows 10 have xp mode?

[Windows Central Question]

I have installed the windows 10 upgrade but I cannot find anything about installing windows xp mode. Also I am wondering if you can install drivers in xp mode?

 

[dcardin14]

Absolutely Brilliant...(and all too correct).

 

[NetworkMonkey]

Kind of rude and out of touch response - For someone who 'actually knows something about computers' you should understand NO ONE has time to reboot every time they want to use their software.
a Virtual machine offers easy of use the ability to flip back and forth between systems with ease.
I use my Main PC for day to day office work and connecting to our domain and the virtual machine for my test environment. a Dual boot would waste way too much time.
Windows7 having the XP as a 'free' virtual machine - not only is it handy and quick it is a free OS.

food for thought.

 

[PhaidOut]

Since this is a thread that won't die, I think even beyond what some people have outlined here I can maybe explain to some of you the issues with "just get on a modern operating system". There are a lot of complications. For home users it is things like investments in older softare. But for companies it is a much bigger deal.

Take my company. We are a small manufacturer. We have just finished our second Microsoft "Voluntary" Audit in 2 years and they are a giant pain. MS is auditing smaller and smaller companies more and more often trying to make up lost revenue from shrinking market share. So we need to stay legitimate in our licensing. We have 17 CNC machines the size of a small room from a particular vendor. They run Windows XP. and cost us an average of $400k/machine. That is 6.8 million dollars. This vendor was shipping Windows XP based machines up until about 4 years ago. Their new machines run Windows 7 Embedded and feature a new CNC control. Keep in mind - 4 years ago they came out with Window 7 machines. The older version of their CNC software is updated just enough to run Windows 7 on their NEW hardware (these CNC controls) but not the old hardware.

They now have a way to update these machines but in order to update these 17 machines to Windows 7 it requires:

• Taking the machine out of production.
• Shipping it to their US Facility.
• That Facility shipping it to Europe
• The Europe facility replacing and testing all the electronics.
• Reshipping to the US Facility
• Reshipping to our Facility
• Installing and testing the CNC

That process will take up to 6 months and cost $150k each PLUS shipping. (2.5 million in just the upgrades). Lost production time will be around $200k each as well. Until this magically happens we need to maintain PCs that run that same software for training and offline programming. Unfortunately that means nothing new, nothing modern and nothing fast unless we find a legit way to run XP in a VM.