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you're missing the point. if someone has a 'sub par' or 'old' mobo they're just sol with 7. catch my drift? there's no fault, it's just a fact that there's a lack of backing from either. if an os came out tomorrow, who would you blame for driver issues? the manufacturer or the os? and when would you switch blame from one to the other? after 4 months? a year? the arbitrary nature of the answers should tell you how silly it is to blame either one. i don't blame ms for there being no drivers, i'm just stating a fact, and that it sucks. if you had to compare, wouldn't functionality be a good test? there's more support for xp than 7, simple. maybe when 7 is fine tuned and a bit more mainstream with compatibility i'll give it another shot.
your advocacy for 7 is making you look kinda arrogant. the problem was a dead NIC, i had problems finding support to make sure it wasn't hardware, threw on a more stable and supported os, got my answer, and you're telling me xp is inferior... after i explained myself... and found out exactly what i needed to know with it... and gave you reasons why 7 is still shitty for some people... and have asked you questions to move the conversation along which you're not answering... since it seems you can't understand where i'm coming from, let's just move on with life.
that's the capitalist attitude lol and i would agree with you if it was true, but software wise it not always is, and ms products are a perfect example. there have been steps backwards lol
again we can ask when is xp considered old? arbitrary answers again. if it's reasonable to say it is when it's outperformed and outfunctioned, please tell me a program i can't run that you can. if you can't back up your claim, it's just an opinion, which i could care less about. see if you can run sygate firewall pro on boot and everything, i can
ask yourself, does the speed of command execution depend on the command? or when the command was written? or does it depend on the resources available?
besides 7 saps video memory like a fat leech just to run the os lol so when you buy a 512mb video card, you're paying full price when a significant fraction won't even be used for what you're trying to do. and that money you're essentially spending on aesthetics leads to bugs. no thanks. btw xp SP3 was in 2008, and it's way more stable than 7, and just as functional... you know this otherwise you'd have answered my questions by now. if you just admitted that 7 does have more support and compatibility issues than xp,we wouldn't waste our time on such a moot topic. so don't be stubborn :P i'm living proof of a person unhappy with the current build of 7 for logical reasons that you fail to recognize. let's get over it.