Works just fine. Only thing is that the 8174 does not have LabVIEW Real-Time support, so you'll have to either buy a very large drive for Windows, or a smaller drive with some other embedded OS.
See the following KnowledgeBase
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/f3090563c2fc9dc686256ccd007451a8?OpenDocument
NOAA also used an 8174 with a solid-state drive (1 GB E-Disk drive from BitMicro running Windows 98 custom installation) for altitude qualification testing:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/F168A9064909B95786256D63001583A8?opendocument