Since I'm not familiar with VMWare, and because I think Parallels' solution won't be the only option for long, what are these adantages you mentioned?

I think my needs are going to be pretty modest, but there are a few usability features that will really influence my opinion. I'd probably prefer to use the program with a Windows application set to full screen, so I could get as close as possible to haveing that missing application blend in with my desktop.

I'd love a solution that could run a Windows application within a window that offered a (real-time) resizable virtual desktop without all the Windows/Explorer stuff in/on it (so resizing the parent window would seamlessly resize the application window running inside it). Anything that would get me as close as possible to a plain application window on my Mac OS desktop for that hosted program.

Bruno