I worked for a large medical center’s IT department. We spent weeks planning to implement a patch to the company’s thousands of XP boxes. And then we had a week of putting out fires.
The idea of upgrading to Win 7 or 8 boggles my mind.
My main complaint is that XP has the familiar file search dialog (window like) box that is easy to use with lots of useful features, W7 has a moron text search box with one or two cryptic controls, and you have to do a full filename search before it gives you a 'search for text inside file' option. . I hate it.
but W7 (and W8) have a built in recorder so you can create audio files from the speaker sound lines, great for recording songs from online stations.
W8 is even LESS control friendly and more idiot appealing I suppose, and like Rusty notes it does stuff you dont want it to.
I try to move a window out of the way of another (to see both) with cursor and it maximizes it on its own blocking all the others, about five times before it does what I want..
Its like a gun that goes off based on sounds.
I can relate. In a previous life the internal support group was planning a rollout of a major XP update to around 200,000 machines. Some home-grown stuff had very stringent dependancies and they were briefing the CIO on the multi-month test plan. His observation was something like "I don't see why you can't just roll it all out tonight, after all, it's still Windows".
Thankfully, he wasn't CIO very long.
most health insurance co are still using XP with zero plans to upgrade to win7/8