January technet arrived today which I am excited about. If you subscribe to the plus version, which was a free upgrade when I renewed my subscription, you get copies of the latest Microsoft software with the time limits removed so I can now have VirtualPC, Windows2003, SQL Server etc running with no time limits. This will be a big boon in my attempt to get current in my certifications and the addition of VirtualPC means I do not have to have extra hardware lying around the office just for temporary machines. Sounds like a good excuse to upgrade the desktop machine to a nice fast,powerful, lots of disk to run all these virtual machines.