It is interesting to note that Microsoft has now positioned themselves to move forward in a similar fashion as has Apple with its transition from OS 9 and prior [Classic] to Mac OS X.

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Anyone from the Macintosh community will be experiencing Deja-Vu about now. Apple did exactly the same thing by isolating Classic-- pre Mac OS X-- applications in the "Blue Box". If Microsoft does choose this path, they will likely be able to create a much more transparent legacy application environment simply because modern Windows tends to be better abstracted than Mac OS 9 and prior.

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