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[nonelvis]

I have just finished installing Parallels Desktop and Windows XP on my Mac. I can't even begin to express how weird it is to be typing in iChat or Safari while seeing the XP interface lurking in a window below.

On the other hand, once I got the right version of Parallels installed, Windows installed easily, and Windows Update is merrily chugging away in the background downloading ... something. PC folks: do I want SP3, or will it make me hate life? Pretty much all I need to do with Windows is look at web pages I am building, so as long as my version of Windows is running the correct security updates, I think I'm all set.

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[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Yup, when IE7 was still in beta they let people run both and AFAIK left that ability. But I was slightly mistaken: XP SP3 only removes the ability to Uninstall IE7. More here (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/05/05/ie-and-xpsp3.aspx).

[nonelvis]

Good lord, maybe they could make this more complicated? "If you installed X, then you can't install Y, unless you took SP Foobar, in which case you can install Z on alternate Tuesdays but only uninstall it if the moon is full."