Muddiest Point of the Muddiest Point (Week 4):

I was confused on the point of being able to run 2 different operating systems on the same machine. I realize that you can pick which one you want to boot up and lose just the hard drive space that the OS occupied, butI am more curious about the actual files and programs. Would these files and programs be Operating System specific or would any place on the hard drive be available for use by either OS. If that was the case I would think there would be compatibility issues if both were not kept exclusive from one another.