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Originally Posted by Mystvan
yoga  , if your hardware was Desktop, it would be interesting to have multi-boot where Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 could coexist. 
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Actually, it's not so great idea already. WinXP is out of support, and Win7 is at brink of it. Essentially, it means that you either you had to tie yourself to old slow hardware to give XP a breath, or face with plain incompatibility of your new hardware with it. Also, AHCI is a thing for newer windows, and non-recognized in old, so you would had to switch it in BIOS now and again for each OS.
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Originally Posted by Mystvan
Another thing, I do not know if Windows 7 Pro provides Windows XP Mode.
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Basically, it's old good Virtual PC renamed and cutted. It was free since 2006, and it remains free.
Latest one, for Win 7+ is
here.
Older, XP-compatible version is named
Virtual PC 2007
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Originally Posted by Scatty
That (ICQ), and Skype, have been getting some bad reviews from time to time, due to automatic bot spam programs and people sending unaware people virus links and attachments. Though it can be avoided by disabling accepting things from people not on your friends list (I think, at least Skype should have that option), most people don't seem to bother or know settings of these programs well enough.
I don't use either, Facebook website is bad enough as a social meeting place, and those two programs are worse, meaning security isn't very good.
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Just for record, I use Skype, ICQ and Facebook (and also Steam, Jabber and Telegram), and haven't any problems with it all this years. But only Telegram is under native PC client, others are through Miranda NG.