[ck2]

With the PosReady tweak XP will be around through 2019

But whew, just moved from XP to Windows 7 this week, I needed the memory for virtual machines for testing and didn't want to use the 64G hack because of instability.

I cannot describe how much I dislike Windows 7, everything simple in XP has been horribly mutated into something much less configurable and "dumbed down".

Classic Shell makes a dent but it is not enough.

Even the Cleartype tuning is a pain in the *ss on W7

Fortunately Firefox has made the change less painful, it looks virtually identical from XP to W7 because it has its own cleartype manager and is mostly independent from the OS otherwise.

[wnevets]

You're really going to hate the switch to 8/10 when that's required in a few years.

[freehunter]

Seriously, "Windows 7 is horrible compared to XP" is years behind the times. Oh I remember the good old days of "Windows XP is Playskool, give me back Windows 98!"

Wouldn't be an update year if there weren't people complaining about the latest version of Windows, forgetting everyone had the same complaints about the previous version of Windows that they love so much.

[bsimpson]

This is the Internet. You can write "ass."