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Here’s another great article from Stephen Rose, explaining XP Mode vs. MED-V. Read the entire article here

Here is an excellent post that explains Windows7 XP Mode. The article describes clearly who should use XP Mode standalone or MED-V which is the product designed for enterprises.

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/springboard/archive/2009/06/16/understanding-xp-mode.aspx

I also recommend reading “How MED-V v2 helps you manage Windows XP Mode”

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/business/archive/2009/04/28/how-med-v-v2-helps-you-manage-windows-xp-mode.aspx

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V version 1) Planning, Deployment and Operations Guide. The document can be found here

Windows XP Mode on Windows7  with Windows Virtual PC is designed for small business users, For Enterprise customers, MED-V is the way to go.

More information:

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/business/archive/2009/04/28/how-med-v-v2-helps-you-manage-windows-xp-mode.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-28Win7QA.mspx

The first out of four  screen casts about MED-V has been published today on TechnetEdge.

Microsoft has made available a Demo Kit for their Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Beta aka MED-V. For more details read my earlier blog post “Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization aka MED-V”.

The Demo Kit contains everything you need to get first hands-on experience. The Demo Kit can be downloaded from here.

Confused about all the different solutions around Virtualization ? then get the “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions” eBook. The document gives you all the information you need to better understand the various Virtualization offerings Microsoft has available today and will release in the near future.

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) is Microsoft’s new product offering for so-called local virtualization or client based virtualization. The solution itself originates from Kidaro that was acquired by Microsoft last year.

With local desktop virtualization a complete OS is executed on top of the operating system that is installed on the users physical device. Using a client based virtualization solution such as MED-V can help with application compatibility issues when migrating to a new operating system. With MED-V you can continue providing applications to your users in a seamless way without having the user notice that that application runs on another virtualized OS.

One very interesting scenario that is being shown in the demo is the following: Assume you plan to migrate to Windows 7 that comes with Internet Explorer 8, but you have a business critical application that would only run on Internet Explorer 6. With MED-V you can provide IE6 to your end users running on Windows XP.

Find out more about MED-V from the links provided below:

MED-V Power Point Presentation

Microsoft Desktop Virtualization on Microsoft Virtualization

MED-V Demo

Client-Hosted Virtualization with Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization product introduction

WindowsIT Pro Magazine MED-V article

Windows Springboard Series: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)