Want to get Windows on my Mac

Hi, I have a MacBook which still had OSX Tiger as the running program. I wanted to run windows on my mac so I can use a PC only based program for work. I know that I have to upgrade to OSX Leopard because it has Boot camp on it. I only really need to run the one PC program on the windows side and maybe use the internet, as I like to do everything else on the Mac side.
My main question is what is the best Windows install to get, with the cost of the upgrade to Leopard and having to buy the windows install disc its getting a bit more expensive than I would like. Can anyone give me some good advise as to where I can get a cheap windows install from or what is the best windows package to use as I only need windows for one program and to save a few files, as I have office and all my other programs on the Mac side.
Please advise
Thanks

Get either Parallels or VMWare Fusion. According to Walt Mossberg in WSJ they are both good, but VMWare in its latest release has features that Parallels has not caught up with. Two of the BIG reasons to get one of these rather than rebooting to Windows (as Bootcamp requires) is that first they share the same disk partition, and second, you can drop Windows apps onto the Dock and run them from within OS X without having to explicitly switch to Windows.
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