Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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You could try running both XP and your XP app under VirtualboxOSE on Linux with contemporary hardware. Any hardware that is supposed to be able to acceptably run Windows 7 or Vista will of course be blazingly fast running Linux.
If your virtual XP installation catches any malware, just wipe the Virtualbox image file and re-instate it from a backup copy.
Tried it for the reasons you suggested - lets say running XP in Virtualbox on multiple PC on a domain server was not a success, turned out to be very unstable and crashed the network switches.
Now I'm dual booting with Linux and have used ntfsclone to clone XP to a image file on Linux, so I can replace XP with a clean copy when needed. However, this is hardly an ideal solution, XP is not great, old insecure etc.