

If you have VMware Workstation running on your machine, make sure to uninstall the program before installing the Hyper-V role. This article explains how to enable Hyper-V for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. However, Microsoft did include the option to enable Hyper-V Manager.

When Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 were released, many users found that XP mode was no longer being offered with these operating systems.

One way Microsoft alleviated this issue was by creating Windows XP mode, which can be found here: When many organizations switched to Windows 7, they found that many of their legacy applications built for Windows XP no longer worked.
