If one thing has proven true with MS, you dont WANT anything BUT the top version. 2000 Pro was the true stable version, XP Pro was the most stable version, Vista Ultimate didnt suck as bad as the lesser versions.

MS makes their OS levels like Jenga. Start with a solid tower (top version) and then they start pulling stuff out, making it less and less stable until you get to the cheapo version. If you're gonna upgrade, go all out and save yourself the headache.

I saw that, and it sucks for those owners, in my case it's no problem because i always get the best version for my work things...

That certainly does sound nice, probably making up for.......well.....a lot of stuff.

Yeah I can imagine the millions of home users are going to need this functionality.

Well...we need to start pressing M$ to offer this feature with Home Premium...this is the version that will offered to us, and I'm not sure why they wouldn't off it, since most people will already have Windows XP...any ideas?

I don't see this being a big deal for home users.

We'll probably be at Windows 8 by the time Gizka gets their final RC out.

So pretty much an easy convenient way to dual boot.

Do you guys actually research what you're talking about before you post? Maybe the OP source wasn't very specific but this is not like third party virtualization software and not like dual boot.

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/xp_mode_preview.asp

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/xp_mode_pre_shots.asp

"XP Mode couldn't be simpler. It consists of Windows Virtual PC 7.0, a new version of Microsoft's client-based virtualization product line, and a fully licensed install of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). (You can also install other OSes into the Windows Virtual PC 7.0 environment if you'd like.) As with today's versions of Virtual PC, you're free to load up the XP desktop in a window and run applications inside of the virtual environment. But XP Mode goes a step further by using MED-V technologies to allow installed applications inside of the virtualized XP to appear in the host OS, alongside native Windows 7 applications."

In other words, it is a virtualization utility, catching up with third party tools such as VMWare Fusion when it comes to integration into the host OS. On my MacBook I can already launch XP applications alongside OSX applications, they appear each in their own window, appear in the dock etc.

As I said before, the details are what could make this better than third party virtualization solutions: in particualr the treatment of virtualized registry, filesystem and user rights. But we're not given details on them.

Exactly like we're not given details on hardware accelerated 3d graphics (VMWare Fusion supports that), so we don't know if this is viable for games.