Version 5 was released in 2002 with support for Mac OS X 10.1 or later. Support for Windows 2000 was added support for other operating systems could be added more easily through pre-configured OS Packs. Disk images containing the Windows installation could be dynamically resized. Version 4 was released in 2001 with up to double the performance through support for the PowerPC G4 Velocity Engine. Version 3 was released in 1999 with improved performance and USB support for Mac OS 9 users running Windows 98. Apple offered Virtual PC 2.0 with Windows 95 for free to purchasers of a Power Macintosh G3 computer. Version 2 was released in 1998 and added support for Windows 98. Registered users of SoftWindows were offered a competitive rebate. It allowed Power Macintosh computers to emulate a PC to run DOS, OS/2, Windows, or OpenStep. The software was first released in June 1997 as Connectix Virtual PC.
