LOL! Not a silly idea AT ALL. Allan - what you fail to realise is that many machines coming off the production line now CANNOT run XP natively. They are BUILT to run Vista and that's it. What I'm suggesting (silly me!!
) is that for those people who will eventually have to buy a machine like this (or be given one through work or whatever) there is a way they can have their cake and eat it too. They can run Vista (because they have to (oh dear!!) AND run a virtual copy of their favourite XP at the same time, which will allow them to run that very XP-specific bit of hardware or software until the manufacturer of that item gets off their bum and fixes it to work under the new OS. I run my machine for work OTHER than astonomy-specific more than 95% of the time - so being able to run XP when I want for an evening is fantastic.
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Well what a silly idea to run Vista and XP at the same time.
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There are plenty of reasons to do this Allan - if you can't peronally see one, then it's not your place to knock those that do. Shoot Microsoft - not me!