Windows 7 and Windows XP Mode – Cool!

(NOTE: This is updated in a subsequent post to cover my ignorance)

I really love Windows 7 in all its 64-bit goodness.  I get all my memory.  It’s fast, it’s convenient. 

But there’s one thing that I don’t like – my poor broadband modem isn’t yet supported.  I need my broadband modem, because several of my clients just won’t let me jack-in to their network. 

So the first time I dug into “Windows XP Mode” I came up a bit disappointed.  What? It’s just Virtual-PC?  Well, yes and no.  It’s a newer, better version of Windows XP that I didn’t have to build myself.  And… wait for it… I get to use my USB broadband modem in the the virtual machine.