No, it's purpose was for business compatibility, and support for XP now ends in 2014 after being extended when it should have already been completely discontinued, where it was late 2012 when Win 8 was released. You certainly can run it in a virtual machine provided you have your own license for the operating system. -- I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires- Susan B. Anthony Yesterday we obeyed kings, and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to the truth- Kahlil G.
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That will work. I did exactly that. Hyper-V is nice but is no where as easy to setup as XP Mode was. You have to do everything and learn to appreciate what Microsoft did automatically in Windows 7.