Windows7 on New Dell Laptop

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hemang

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Hello, I have a Toshiba laptop with XP Home installed. I am using this in my office haing other XP Pro, Home, Linux and Win98 computers connected peer to peer. Through my XP laptop I am able to administer all the computers by logging on with the admin username and password.
Now I am planning to buy a new Dell leptop with comes with Win7 Pro 64Bit. My questions are :
1) Will I be able to run all old programs which I was running on XP on Win7 64 bit?
2) If not can I dual-boot XP 32 bit with Win7 64 bit and run some programs there?
3) Or can I use some virtual windows software to run Xp within Win7 to run old programs? Does this work?
4) Will I have any problems connecting to my office network with XP home, Pro, Win98 and Linux desktops?

Please advice since I have to decide on the purchase of the laptop. Thanks.
 
Thanks for the answer. Instead of Win7 pro, if I buy Win7 Home Premium, will it allow me to connect to the peer-peer network? I am able to do it with the Xp-Home. In the future if we setup a server instead, will Win7 Home be able to connect as an administrator to this?
 
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