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BTW, he mentioned it, but I want to emphasize it, Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate are able to run MS’s free virtualization software and free Windows XP inside of Win7. And, surprise, it runs pretty darn good, too, not much of a performance hit as I would imagined.

I run the WindowsXP virtual machine on Windows7 as well as VMWare, but not both at the same time. My preference between the two happens to be VMWare, but only because I tend to work from home and want to isolate my work traffic via VPN from my normal internet traffic. That is, I can establish a VPN connection to work and route traffic for my email, fileserver, softphone (voip) traffic to the VPN connection inside the virtual machine, while maintaining a separate internet connection on the physical machine - but still using the same network card. Since each machine (physical and virtual) has their own IP address, I can split the traffic, which I cannot do with Windows7 and the virtual XP that microsoft provides.

Other than that one key difference for me and the way I work, your observation of there being no noticeable difference in speed with Microsoft's virtual XP on Windows 7 is spot on.

I'm going to give VirtualBox another look-see, it's probably been too long since I have.

I was fascinated by the presentation Google made for the Wave collaborative tool a while back. I know that there are those who would reject Google dependency out of hand, but this thread strikes me as a perfect example of the potential that sort of thing might have.

It's conceivable that Wave could make it possible for FR threads to be summarized into more coherent form. It could be a solution for the problem of the last poster - I prefer to hit the articles when they're first posted, rather than joining late into a conversation, because I tend to get involved in a long analysis of an issue - and if the thread is already old, by the time I actually hit "Post" people have moved on and nobody will ever notice my brilliant post at Reply #162.