Whilst I appreciate the fact this is a possible option for those silly enough to want to upgrade from Xp to W7 you really HAVE to ask the question WHY is Microsoft making it so difficult a task in the first place. To me this outcome is like saying to me I can make a boat out of your nice new car - well yes perhaps , maybe but is that what I really want. Do I really need to pay $89 for software to do something that should have been easy and straight forward to do in the first place , and further I don't really wish to be getting into virtualization when I just wanted one PC running the latest OS with the old build from XP being directly migrated to W7. Xp Users have been let down by Microsoft and everytime a 3rd party product says it can do something that Microsoft should have done on day one it exposes Microsoft as being totally unconcerned for its XP User base.