I’m on XP. I haven’t seen much evidence that my productivity would increase even going to Windows 3000 (and no, I’m not an idiot).
Just don’t see how spreadsheets, or Word, or database access, or my Cad programs improve. Or my browsers.
And yet, I have yet to see them boast about how their latest and greatest release uses less resources, takes up less hard drive space, or demands less of basic memory footprint just to run. That at least would be a selling point for many.
Too, they still will not release their official standards for such small things as the ntfs filesystem, and each new release of their "Office" products is less and less compatible with previous versions.
Even now their latest offerings to date will not run certain windows programs I rely on, which provides even less incentive to pay yet another 125 dollars for their latest produt.