I pity anyone who still lingers on XP. There is hardly any reason to use it anymore in this day of age. The OS is a decade old; you didn't still use Windows 95 in 2005 did you? Like someone already said, MS will stop all support for XP soon, and in my opinion they should've have done so years ago! The sooner you accept that XP is (becoming) obsolete, the sooner you can enjoy the modern, all-around better functioning Win 7. And like with Internet Explorer, we can then finally call XP a part of history.

It really is. I love the way it looks like it's supposed to be more user friendly too. I've used Windows since 3.1 and no version has left me more stumped as than that fucking mess. I can't even imagine being a new desktop PC user and being faced with that shit. I just can't see how they could have made it worse.

I'll just leave this here...

It is not crap, but... whatever...

http://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011/BPS-1004

Watch it, then you will know what Metro actually is.

As far as I know, XP Mode stores the images as a VHD which should be mountable and usable by VirtualBox. So when you create a new machine, at the HDD creation part, just chose the XP Mode VHD file and everything should work.

I know what it is. It's a tablet OS that somehow made its way onto desktops. That much is painfully apparent. What you seem to be trying to tell me with the video is that it's the company with the near 90% market share desperately flailing around trying to beat the company with the 10% share at its own game.

Yeah, that's actually more condemning than I'd usually be about it. Which is certainly surprising coming from you.

Yeah. I haven't actually used an XP Mode image in VirtualBox so I can't say for sure, but trying to use it directly in VMWare resulted in the license claiming to be invalid, using VMWare's XP Mode Importer solved that though. I'd imagine VirtualBox happily uses the resulting VMWare image without a hitch though.