Last week I had a client who got a bargain PC for business. It was one of those situations where a family member was able to hook them up with a very nice computer. The only problem was that it came with Windows Vista Home Premium. And that was a problem because one of their business critical programs isn’t set up for Vista yet.

But Microsoft has an answer for just such a situation. We downloaded (for free) and installed Virtual PC 2007. It didn’t take long and installation was a snap. Then we installed XP (they had an used license) on the virtual computer and they were up and running.

I had heard of and read of Virtual PC before but hadn’t used it. Now I have it set up on my Windows Vista laptop so I can also have XP at my fingertips. This Virtual PC program is definitely for real. Microsoft threw up several warnings while installing it on the Home Vista version as it isn’t intended for the Home version. But it worked just fine and saved the client big time by not having to buy an actual computer just to run this application. I love working in a virtual world.Сувенири