What is best Windows Virtual Machine?

Hi
I have a lot of stuff remained from my old Windows as some softwares without Mac couterpart or Word documents with ruined fonts which only can be seen on MS Word . I need a Virtual Machine with minimum performance reduction. I tried VMWare but it really stucks , I also tested Wine Bottler but it can run a limited number of Windos apps. I have heard about Boot camp but I dont want to log out for using windows.
My Config:
Mountain Lion on Macbook Pro , late 2011, core i7 2.4 GHz, with 4G RAM. 
Anyone knows which VM is most compatible with Mac ML?

Paralles 7  Their annual updates seem spendy too me.   Right now however if you Purchase PD 7  then it is a free upgrade to PD 8 when it is released in Sept.  http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
free upgrade documentation: http://www.parallels.com/techguarantee2012/
Don't forgret Virtual Box 
https://www.virtualbox.org/    freeware/shareware/opensource
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.8.1) 2.4GHz IntelCore i5 320 HD 8GB RAM ParallelsDesktop7.0

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