MIMF

Thanks Jim,
I can get parallels 7 for $15 so I might give that a try. I have VirtualBox already so I should see what that's capable of.
Only some apple hardware can boot a windows .iso from a usb drive. The late 2011 27" iMac is not capable (I'm pretty sure apple disabled that on purpose for whatever inscrutable reason.) Also not all usb flash drives are useable. Even though Boot Camp Assistant was able to write the iso to my Sandisk 16gb cruzer switch drive but the iMac could not detect it at startup. (You have to edit the boot camp assistant's perfs file to add your machine's profile if it came with an optical drive.)

I have to say as an aside that booting into a "single purpose" partition is a great way stay focussed on the task at hand. No email, no interweb, no music, no photos, no cat videos.
That's what I miss most about good old mac system 6.

Still no magic mouse.

My company really likes Apple hardware, but we mostly develop in/for Windows, so I need to be in both at once. And just to cut off all the snide comments, we work with special purpose hardware that they don't make Mac drivers for, so we have no choice.

I have no troubles using a Magic Mouse in either OS, but leave it to Apple, it scrolls bass-ackwards in Windows! I know there is a setting to change it, but you have to change all swipe motions together, and then the touch pad wouldn't work right. I wish Apple had emulated a Windows mouse properly in their drivers.