I recently installed Microsoft's Virtual PC 2004 on my home PC. I like to tinker with new programs and stuff but I have been cautious not to muck up my home PC too much because reloading it all the time takes a lot of time and effort. Since Microsoft just made this for free, I decided to try it out at home and at work. At work I successfully installed SUSE Linux 10 and it seems to be working pretty well so far. I don't have a lot of time to actually use it but from what I've seen so far its a good OS.
At home I installed an old copy of Windows 2000 that I own. I could have installed WinXP but its kind of bloated and Win2000 is a pretty good test bed for the programs that I try. Mainly stuff like Trend Micro Internet Security (I'm in the Power User group) and various other programs for doing stuff like cropping pictures, photo albums, anti spyware, etc..... I totally forgot how barebones a Windows 2000 install can be. It only had Internet Explorer and the OS and that was it. I'll have to work on installing other programs like OpenOffice.org to read and write office files, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and maybe a few audio and video codexes so I can test out movies that I make. I gotta say I'm liking this a lot and if I can put it on a networked hard drive, I can just make up virtual machines and use those and never have to install anything on another PC again. This is getting to be pretty sweet!!
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