Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 Description:

Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 review:
4 stars (It works, after a while) - It takes forever to get this to work. I couldn't get XP Pro to run at all, but regular XP worked eventually. After that, there's the song and dance about registering the Windows software with Microsoft, which took about 5 tries, but eventually did work. (I was using the software that came with my Dell; I have no explanation for why I had to keep entering the same data over and over before finally I got a product code that Microsoft's robot would accept.) After that, I run only the simplest of programs-some high school educational stuff-but it works fine (if you don't mind wading through a couple of error messages on startup that say everything isn't fine but don't worry about it). Bottom line: it's probably better to buy a cheap PC if you really need a PC, but if your need is occasional, and you love installing software, this is fine. NOTE: I have Tiger but haven't upgraded Virtual PC (there's an online upgrade at microsoft) since what I have runs fine.
2 stars (Sucks) - It does what it says, but it is so so slow even using windows 98 and I have a newer iMac G5 1.8 GHz with 768MB of Ram.
1 stars (Just awful.) - Anyone who says Virtual PC for mac is a good bit of software MUST be a plant. My experience has been a total time-wasting excercise. My problems are the same as many others I've read. First, the packaging is misleading. I picked (correction...was handed!) the "stand-alone" version, only to find it required a separate copy of windows. Returned it. Got the bundled version. Installed it. Kept getting a "reboot" error message everytime I tried to start it up. Re-installed it. Got a creative-brand webcam and installed it (this was the reason for my purchase, so I could access an online language course site with PC only software). Turns out, the camera (which is supposed to run on both PC and MAC will NOT run on virtual PC). I was in disbelief. There's a website that lists supported hardware for Virtual PC. The number of unsupported cameras, printers, etc. is nothing short of astounding. Does anything run on this program? Now I'm out $200 and stuck with software that can't be returned cause the package is opened. BEWARE! BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK!