XP mode on 64bit Windows 7?

Has anyone who needs to use XP mode in the office noticed any problems with using XP mode in 64bit windows? I'm just wondering because I am ordering Windows 7 for an office and would like to know based on this whether to get 32 or 64bit version.

Normally, I'd love to get 64bit, but not if this is an issue.

 

XP Mode is 32-bit even if you have Windows 7 64-bit, so it should cause no problem. Remember that XP Mode literately runs XP on Windows 7, to make your XP only software run under WIn7 environment which ever version you pick (32 or 64-bit).

XP Mode limitation.
- Unable to play video very smoothly (this may depend on system performance)
- Unable to to use user Microphone
- Unable to use Audio recording software due to the above
- Unable to drag and drop from WIn7 desktop or folder Directly to an application in XP Mode. You have to put it on the desktop of XP first (Copy and paste action) and then drag and drop it on your XP application. Or hit the open button of software running under XP Mode.
- Unable to do any 3D stuff or gaming.

That is pretty much all I can think off.

I am not in a business environment but do use XP Mode for myself to test my software under XP.

 

Works fine under 64-bit. Anyway, XP Mode is just a more convenient name for a virtual machine. They integrated (not too well i must say) Virtual PC w/ preinstalled XP into Windows 7 and called it "XP Mode". It shouldn't be used for anything to do with audio or video, as it plain sucks at that.

VMWare works better, but it costs money. VirtualBox works better too, and that is free.

 

Only works with a CPU that has virtulization enabled in the bias

 

Right, but you need an XP license, and you can't have a floating XP based application (a la Parallel for Mac's).