Windows 7 XP mode and Sony laptop problems

By: | August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
Windows 7 XP mode and Sony laptop problems

According to an article on SonyInsider it seems that Windows 7’s XP Mode will not be possible on all current Sony Vaio laptops, this is because they have this feature disabled within the BIOS. Sony are yet to announce whether they will be enabling this feature, however I would imagine they will as it may put people off buying their Windows 7 laptops.

An official statement from Sony’s Senior Manger Product Marketing released this statement, “We have received very little if any requests to enable VT technology up until very recently. 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 PC and completely disable the latter.”.

While I can understand from a security point of view disabling VT technology is perhaps a good idea, if other manufacturers are allowing this feature I really cant understand why Sony have to take a different approach. Check out SonyInsider for full details.

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  • Rajesh

    I can not explain how much problem I have faced due to this mistake of SONY. Their service centre people also dont know why xp mode does not work window 7. The CD provded to downgrade window 7 to XP operating system in not complete. Sony keyboard features does not work with XP system. I spend 3000 $ for this laptop but i could not able to fullfill my needs which 500 $ laptop can do. Its a shame for SONY, as well its dealers who dont know anything about it.