I will upgrade only when I just absolutely have to. I just upgraded from XP to WIN7, and regret it a lot already.
Still have XP on one of my putters and won’t upgrade to another system. XP was the best Microsoft has had. Why ruin a good thing?
the only way i go to 7 is to upgrade a vista machine.
Interesting. I used XP on my two office computers for about eight years before finally switching to 7 some years back. In my experience, 7 is just a cleaner, smoother, smarter version of XP.
One of the first things that impressed me, was that Win 7 automatically found and loaded the drivers for all of my external devices. I didn't even have to install them - 7 did it for me.
Not to mention the fact that I have yet to see a BSOD, or any of the other functionality issues I used to periodically struggle with on my XP computers.
Microsoft has a reputation for getting it right about half the time with their new operating systems. Like a lot of people, I've noticed that it seems to be every other OS that bombs. XP was a hit, while Vista was a miss, then Win 7 was a hit, while 8 / 8.1 was pretty much a miss. If that holds, Win 10 should be another hit.
MS-DOS was pretty solid.
“I just upgraded from XP to WIN7, and regret it a lot already.”
I could live nicely with WIN7, but not with 8.0 (now upgraded to 8.1) that came bundled on my current laptop. Going to do the Win10 upgrade as soon as I get the last 57 or so 8.1 Windows update errors figured out and cleared (that’s a whole story itself...).