XP vs Vista Ultimate

A matter of $ million

I have a new W500 which should arrive soon, it is pre-loaded with Vista Ultimate, my current T42 has XP and all my applications run on XP, I have tested with a slow R backup series and were able to get 99% of my apps to work.

Should I use Vista Ultimate (even my tech guy say NO)

I have an also coming XP disc so I can install XP, if I can how I install Vista as a 2nd start, I don't think the machine comes wit a Vista disk.

All opinions

I'm using SQL 2005, Visual Studio 2008, several VPN Cisco and Sonicwall and Office 2007

I have the 160 G drive and 3 GB memory

I don't think that the restore disks Vista will install on VMware. You may need to get an OEMr Vista installation disc and use the product key on the bottom of your Thinkpad.

You can use partedmagic to resize your Vista partition and create a partition for XP, then you could install XP and dual boot with Vista.

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