Well I find it interesting: virtualization, Windows 7 and XP mode - quick fix or not? #Microsoft #tech

But then again I find everything interesting. I can even sit and watch grass growing. (It's quite relaxing.)

With Windows 7, it's putting the legacy Win32 API genie back in the bottle -- or more precisely, tucking it inside a custom-integrated virtual machine where it, and its notoriously hard-to-kill XP underpinnings, can coexist peacefully alongside newer, hipper versions of Windows.

If you have chosen to stay with Windoze XP then you'll have an opinion on Vista (and not a good one). And being a pragmatist you'll recognise that at some point you'll want to bite the bullet and install Windows 7 instead (or maybe give it all the flick and go to Linux, or even switch to that overpriced UNIX-derived proprietary product named after a fruit). So knowing what Microsoft is planning is not just interesting but perhaps essential if you want to keep running some legacy apps into the future.

Prepare for the flames

From InfoWorld: The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.

And: "Earlier, Miller said that he chose to hack the Mac because he thought it would be easiest target. Vista hacker Macaulay didn't dispute that assertion: "I think it might be," he said."

Got a Mac, or use Safari? Be careful, folks!