"Over the past few days — since word of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC went public — Microsoft has provided so far only the barest of details about its planned Virtual XP Mode functionality for Windows 7. Slowly but surely the company has started releasing additional details.

I had a chance to ask Scott Woodgate, director of Desktop Virtualization and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), a few questions about the new Virtual XP virtualization service. "