Actually

Windows 7 is a VAST improvement on Vista. Vast I tell you. I feel your pain. Moving from XP to Windows 7 is a bit of a system shock but you'll get used to it eventually.

For people like me who have to use every flavour of operating systems in common use, Windows 7 is actually OK. But only when compared to the abortion that is Vista.

Still much prefer XP for my main work machine though.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 7:46, 2 replies)

I've never felt anything lacking at all with XP.
Sure, mine's a reinstall as my first was borked. But, my laptop is 5 years old (!) and working perfectly, no doubt due to XP's small running memory needs (don't know the correct name for that...)
(Turn that bloody gramaphone down has incorrect spelling in her username *WINS*, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 7:50, closed)

XP was good enough that MS had to go out of their way to kill it, which they have now successfully done by not releasing DX, IE, etc for XP, and ending LTS in 2014, at which point you'd be a fool to use it online. Pity, really.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 9:55, closed)

Complete agreement
Administrating Vista in a workplace environment is like trying to knit chainmail with jam covered otters.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 11:05, closed)

Can't tell you how much I love this simile
'..trying to knit chain mail with jam covered otters'
I really have to shoehorn this into ny next personal appraisal - thanks for the most surreal vision I've had for ages!
I salute you.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 11:16, closed)

I thank you :)
True though.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 12:55, closed)