Agreed. Unfortunately XP is no longer supported. Just upgraded to Win7 and bought another 3-4 years of support. Licenses are pretty cheap @ $35 for 64bit Pro.
It'll be Linux after that.
I have at least one application freeze on me per day. Usually have to kill it in the Application manager.
XP was bad but it is my impression that 7 is worse.
Just make sure that you deal with the Free Auto Upgrade to Windows 10 that Windows 7 will force on you. You don’t want that.