[devilbunny]

It wasn’t a horrible OS. It just broke XP’s “it runs on practically anything” before the hardware was really there. And 7 was, as we all know, the most perfect Windows has ever been. Windows 7 Media Center was a magnificent DVR and a great movie-playing box.

[hbogert]

This so depends on the timing. XP was a memory hog when it came out for that generation's hardwarw