I have in another computer dual boot Win95 and Win98, but the performance of Win98 is worst than 95. In this present moment I have a client's computer with XP that I'm trying to make something reliable, what a s**t! I have decided to never use XP for my use, in case that I need some new hardware resources that aren't supported by old OS, I shall use Linux. You can find any application that you need for Linux, including Maya, and in worst case you can use Windows emulators. For applications such as Poser that use 95% of CPU and the remaining 5% depending on Windows, a Windows emulator for Linux will not have any practical degradation in performance.

Stupidity also evolves!