Windows 7 32bit, 64 bit & XP mode – can of worms?

We've just bought a new pc at work and it's all going a little bit tits. We're not heavy users of MS Office so Office2000 is just fine for us, but it's not fully compatible with 7. My first impressions of 7 is that it makes Vista look good.
After 'falling at the first' I thought I'd ask the STW oracles what other surprises I should expect.

(gggrrrrr Bill Gates first against the wall!!)

No probs at all with either my home or work W7 computers. In fact, I think it's great.

Anyway, the first thing is that you're going to have to accept that you either need Office 2007 (no point really changing to 2003) or you should use OpenOffice instead which is free. Using non-compatible software will always cause problems.

or you should use OpenOffice instead which is free.

isn't O O only free to non business users? I'm using it on my own laptop and it seems great for free. Works nicely with most office documents I've tried

I'm pretty sure it's free for any use including commercial and I've certainly met other IT managers (I run an IT dept) that have deployed OO instead of MS Office at their companies. As I understand it, there's just no support that you'd get for a paid product.

Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose – domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees – anyone you like.

From here:
http://why.openoffice.org/