Not a fully official Apple Mac Ping, but they are talking about Apple products and some of you may have Windows XP on a Virtual PC on your Macs, so what the heck. . . PING!
Yeah, good call. I imagine there are a lot of us with Mac hardware running Windows (including XP) in BootCamp, not to mention VMware, Parallels, VirtualBox, etc.
In fact, I have a harder time these days justifying putting Windows on bare metal (other than as dual boot like BootCamp). I rarely need raw-metal peripheral access (virtualized access is like 99% effective), and when I do, I tend to use the BootCamp partition.
On the other hand I have also found that older Apple hardware that no longer can be upgraded with the latest Apple software is still perfectly suitable for installing Windows on the metal. When I'm forced to upgrade to newer Apple hardware, the older hardware continues to serve just fine with Redmond's offerings.