Originally Posted By: drakino
Windows 7 does have an XP mode with Professional and up. I don't know how well it would work with the apps that are XP only, but may be a solution.

And, as we've discovered here, sometimes Win7 will tell you "it won't work", but if you ignore the warning message and run it anyway, it works fine.

Another option, if you're getting a quad-core machine with a load of ram, is to run the stuff that must run in XP in a virtual machine, and everything else (like your office apps) natively.