Yeah, just bought a [supposedly] new copy of XP on eBay for $40 the other night. Will put it on my spare laptop which basically will exist to transmit my weather station data to WeatherUnderground.
I run 7 on my primary laptop, but have not found one single thing about it that I find an improvement over XP. In fact, I really, really hate that there is apparently no file-indexing other than by name.
In many directories, I like to sort by date and it's painful to get a listing. Ditto "All Programs" on the Start Menu. Very annoying lag to list them.
In my experience and needs, XP is the best OS since DOS,
Let me decide what multi-media I want to run.
Vista and 7 or 8 assumes what you want.
I’m done with MS trying to “help” me.
Just give something that works.
An OS that is not bound by the protocols.
Anything and everything beyond XP/Dos is about multi-media.
Sold to the consumer or creator as the next best thing.