[quote name='uncle5555']You must live in the Twilight Zone then, while working with the armed forces over the summer, I had to map printers for the whole unit I worked for and Vista and 7 were a breeze, mapping XP units was like a nightmare. Personally I used XP at school and a build a friend gave me 5 years ago, until the system blew up (literally) otherwise I stuck with Windows 98se until I got 7 from school for free and haven't looked back or regretted the decision once in two years, it's that good of an OS (from MS, no less, how scary is that
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And with all of the solutions to do older OS'es virtually these days, why bother with using a 10 year old OS as the main one, just grab VM Ware, Virtual PC or something else that'll do that for you, ya know.[/QUOTE]
I do volunteer work for an at risk children program, homeless shelter and a local community center.
The children's program have a 60 unit computer lab. We have 40 units on Windows XP. 5 on Windows 7 and 5 on Linux. The computers are used for homework and are mapped to 2 printers one B/W for bulk prints and a laser office printer for color. Mapping the XP machines to it was easy as pie. Granted even the mapping of the 7 and Linux machines to the printer were not a problem.
When the HW is done the machines are used for gaming. LAN and other stuff. Windows 7 machines are usually the ones to have problems with games like UT2k4, Quake 2 and a many others. For now those machines are strictly HW machines. The XP machines run like water.
The homeless shelter has a job training program and majority of the jobs these men and women will be going for require Windows XP knowledge as many of the offices have not upgraded to Windows 7 yet. Have yet to run into a problem that was not hardware related on those machines.
As for me personally, Windows 7 offers me NO REASON what so ever to upgrade. There is nothing that it can do that my Windows XP machines can not do.
It looks pretty though but that's not a good enough reason to upgrade (especially since I can just change my GUI on XP).
I personally have 3 (originally 8 - 5 of which I sold) free copies of Windows 7. I keep them just in case something groundbreaking comes out for it that I can get on with.
Til then, I click and play freely with no problem whatsoever.
Those Windows 7 commercial are nice though.