Eh...
"(Think of the jump to Windows 7 and the number of Windows XP applications that won't work in the baby virtual machine Microsoft is offering for PCs that have virtualization hardware. If you have an old PC, VM hosted apps will let you move those apps off your PC and onto the server and yet still move to Windows 7 if you want or need to.)"
I'm thinking more that this allows my organization the ability to get Linux to the desktop far quicker and with less compatibility issues than before..