Another update this time to my Tools Entry. 

Initially I left off Ghost and Partition Magic.  These will probably be useful until Longhorn come out and then these tools are a pretty much built in to the OS. 

In the original post I sang the praises of VMWare.  Shortly after Microsoft bought Connetix Virtual PC.  This tool is free to MSDN subscribers!  This is great news because if the guidelines are followed Microsoft will support an OS running in Virtual PC just as they would a regular PC.  This is something VMWare obviously could not offer.  When I asked the program manager from Microsoft if they would support non-Microsoft OS’s

she said they would try to keep the integrity of the product.  If MS is listening to their users they will go out of their way to make sure other major non-MS OS’s are supported.