Therein lies the problem. If it ain’t broke, we need to fix it. I still have one laptop that runs XP. Never had an issue with it. The other 2 are W7. Won’t do 8 or above if I can avoid it.
I run Win 7 on my internet-connected machine. It appears to be the ‘new XP’. It has one or two problems, but I expect after a few service packs, it will be the new Gold Standard.
Just got a machine with 'doze v7 installed on it as an exchange for work done, upgraded from XP. Hate it. Absolutely no benefits that I can see, and no default apps to make the machine workable. Slow, and apparently, although win7 was 'installed' (has the official sticker and regno to prove it) the machine says I have to register it within 30 days with MS for it to be a legal install.
Dropped it back to XP and installed all previous software that I needed for a functional machine -for those apps that need to run under the 'doze OS. Then repartitioned it and changed it to a dual-boot Linux machine. Almost twice as fast, plus I can now watch and record vids and burn discs again.
No contest.