why not just run Ubuntu and put Windows in the virtual machine?
Is exactly what I do and it works very well.
But then I don't have a corporate sysadmin insisting that my desktop has to be a standard Windows image for their ease of management organisation wide, so for those in that situation I can see it kind of makes sense. But then you have to have Win10, so maybe you would ask for an Ubuntu VM on your Windows 7 corporate machine?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
