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Reminds me of the bad old days when I regularly had to open a crappy windows 7 in a VM because some minor piece of software would not run on Linux or on the browser. Thankfully I haven't needed to do that in years.

On a more constructive note, this might be really useful for kernel developers, and for big companies using desktop virtualization.

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Crappy? Windows 7 was the last good Windows.

You don't like being plastered with ads and news articles about Trump every time you open your start menu??

I use Win10 and I don't get ads in my Start menu.

Is it maybe because I'm using Win10 Pro, not Home?

Nope, I started with Home and upgraded to Pro later and I've never had ads in the Start Menu or anywhere else. My machine came preinstalled though and whoever installed Windows obviously had a clue and turned all that crap off before they shipped it to me.

Yeah, any other Windows would have been worse. For me it was crappy because no-one wants to be maintaining a second hardly-used OS on their laptop. You randomly need it once in a blue moon, have to deal with two UIs with their conventions and feels on the same computer, and with copying files between them, and then and of course the first thing it wants to do is download tons of updates. Makes for a crappy experience.

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