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Well I switched recently to win7 after 8 years of XP. Was a pretty bad decision since I cant afford win7 and the eyecandy wasnt worth it. I'm musician and the drivers for a lot of my hardware doesnt work as good as under Xp.
Some stuff doesnt work at all (actually only the scsi stuff and an old midi interface)
As soon as I can be arsed to install all the crap again on my laptop I go back to XP since seven will run out sooner or later.
A big fat minus for seven is the brush bug on photoshop cs4 (my girlfriend tried seven out as well "oh, and she was clever enough to run it on a replace HD to check how good it works on a laptop" - had the same bug so its not just my maschine and the CS4 pack is a bought one from my GF's graphic agency - all win7 drivers available were tried out.
The Performance between seven and XP is almost the same but considered that I had different profiles on XP - 1 of them for live gigs which ran only serato scratch without explorer and all that crap which made my system uncrashable, makes me prefer XP again. Dont know if that is possible on seven since I'm an OS-0.
I guess the years will pass and if seven is really that good loads of people will switch to seven or eight or whatever will deliver the best compatibility with the actuall and past software & harware. Some people will use XP as long as they can......maybe.....forever
I dont see the benefits right now so I will stick as long with XP as possible untill harware/ software issues will force me to switch or seven will be available for free (illegal) The only good thing about is that it operates with 64 bit on my laptop and that it detects all of my ram installed. That was the reason for "checking" it out (Videoproduction consumes loads of ram )