Following proper test methodology he should give himself a few good whacks over the head with a mallet before commencing IE6 tests.
Also, following proper procedure, IE6 should be tested last of all. I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out why.

OMG!!! Ponies!!!

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For us the reasons to go virtual (since 2006 iirc), in no particular order
- reduce power usage and cooling
- less hardware to manage
- more efficient use of hardware
- faster deployment of new servers
- separation of applications (mainly a problem on Windows, applications simply don't co-exist in an nice way on the same server)

We're not a major player by any standards but we now have 10 hosts running a total of 380 vm:s. Lot's of room for more vm:s in there still but it's designed for redundancy, 5 of the hosts can fail and all vm:s can still be kept running on the remaining hosts.

You had me at silicon...

I can't be bothered to check bugtraq right now, but isn't oo and abiword susceptible to the malformed files as well? Granted, not as badly as ms word but there still was something funny going on with the shoddy files iirc.