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I think it's all a matter of looks, honestly. The differences in features are irrelevant and most of them are available via some program. I like Windows 7 because of Aero and because of the design of the windows, but nothing else. I even had to download some tweakers to get rid of the VERY annoying previews in the taskbar, had to install the old Quick Launch on the left, returned the task bar to small icons with text and not-merging, and I consider sometimes to install the old classic start menu because the new one is stupidly worse and slower and stupidly complicated to arrange to the way you want it. I could say that all I like from W7 is Aero, that it's lighter and faster than Vista, the preview icons of the image files in the desktop, and littel more other than the design. If XP runs much better in older computers and does the same, to me it means that it simply was better and the rest is marketing pushing us to "move on". I keep XP in my older laptop. The absurd thing is that the "older laptop" is just 1.5 years old, but doesn't run W7 well for being too heavy, but runs XP fast and smooth. As said, Marketing for the majority of the users who won't really need to upgrade at all. But no, I wouldn't go back, because I like the design of W7 and to me it is very important. XP was ugly and I was using a Vista themepack looking 100% like Vista but without Aero.