Chris G wrote: [...]
The real issue though is that it's simply still *easier* to run a few oddball things in XP in virtualbox, plus it's there if you need to try something else which for some reason doesn't work in Linux (often it doesn't work in Windows either but it's nice to be able to check).
It's nice to have two broken drivers instead of one, where one of those you can't even attempt to fix???
Finally it means I can often help friends and family on the phone by doing the same thing on my screen that they're doing to see where they're going wrong.
It would be better to help them switch to an operating system which allows remote access and screen sharing for multiple simultaneous users without needing a "Professional" version.
What have you got *against* running XP (or Vista or W7) in VirtualBox? It's free, it's easy to set up and very, very few people don't have a licence they can use.
Is that a troll? It's not free in any sense of the word and running XP in VirtualBox means continuing with the unjust, untrustworthy and (for W7 at least) insecure buggy system which no-one else is allowed to fix.
The claim that almost everyone has spare licences is worrying because that suggests that gov.uk could soon try site-licensing the whole country through general taxation. That's a pretty common "New Enclosures" tactic already seen in some countries with patented crops and that sort of thing.
Sorry I can't help with the software at the start of the discussion, but can we agree that this is a LUG list and rampant Windows advocacy should go elsewhere?
Thanks,