Perhaps the Garmin sim would run under XP under VMware? It might be worth it. I don't disagree with your view on win7 in an academic sense but if you measure it according to productivity, and lack of driver hassles with what M$ call "legacy" hardware, then win7 scores pretty badly right now unless you are prepared to throw away all your hardware, and buy all your software all-new and with a great deal of due diligence. Unix is more reliable, etc, and we have two machines at work running FreeBSD whose uptime is probably years, but they only run one or two apps. They run a huge range of apps, some common, some highly specialised, dating from early 1990s all the way through present time. I also have 2 Thinkpad laptops, 2 PCs at home, 2 PCs at work, all running XP and all of them work and do what they are supposed to do. My GF has a win7 PC which works with the bog standard stuff and which gives trouble in every other department. I have a pile of productive (and expensive) software which doesn't run under win7. If the apps I need for my work all run under Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (and for some years that was true they wouldn't run under NT) then so be it. SDB73 - an O/S is just there to run apps.
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