My own experience is that XP does not crash much and requires very
little maintenance. And is not particularly insecure, in spite of the
wide spread rep. As I said, I am talking about MY experience with XP
not anyone else's. I find that trying to become as familiar with Linux
and Mac as I am with XP is more of a problem than to me on my Mac and
Linux machines than any security problem with XP.

> so you are building on a faulty base, but I post it for the few who
> cannot part with Windows but want to try Linux. Here is something to
> try:

The question here is HOW would you virtualize Linux on Windows?