It’s hard to find the perfect operating system for your PC. Windows isn’t the safest OS, but it probably runs all of your programs and games. Linux is much less vulnerable to the Internet’s threats, but it doesn’t natively support Windows applications. So what is a guy to do?
Fortunately, modern PCs are powerful enough to run more than one operating system at the same time. Virtualization software such as VMWare’s VMWare Server or Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007, both of which are free, let you run guest operating systems in memory and disk spaces isolated from the host operating system. Not only does this arrangement allow you to benefit from the strengths of both operating systems, but you can also test risky features or programs on the guest OS while keeping your host system safe from harm.
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