No, not some sicko post-appocalyptic robot fantasy, but Microsoft Virtual PC, the newly released (as in liberated) desktop virtualisation software.

Jeff Atwood has a great post on Coding Horror about shrinking an XP VPC image to the smallest possible size. I'm just about to start creating a bunch of images for testing around here. Then I want to dive into the automation side of things. It looks a little too cool to be true.