Originally Posted by
jghassell
I wouldn't recommend Virtual PC any longer. The performance of either VMWare or VirtualBox will be much better. Alternatively you could upgrade to Windows 8 (har har, I know) and use the built-in Hyper-V client version, but for obvious reasons that might not be a route you want to go.
I don't think performance matters much for the use case he's talking about, basically a sandboxed web surfing environment for his wife.