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I will use Windows XP for another 5 years - until new software and hardware will stop working on XP. Windows 7 GUI is 5 times slower than XP and has bugs: http

I will use Windows XP for another 5 years - until new software and hardware will stop working on XP. Windows 7 GUI is 5 times slower than XP and has bugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM (Windows 7 GUI slowness) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFgYylqP_U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFgYylqP_U (Windows 7 GUI slowness: file explorer) Windows 7 uses 5 times as much resources: XP: 233MHz, 64MB RAM, 1.5 GB. 7: 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 16 GB.

redthrowaway 15y ago
1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB HD are micenuts. You couldn't buy less than that if you tried. Hell, you could run it on a phone. Windows 7 is faster and much, much nicer on any computer made in the last 2-3 years. I'm not a Windows fan by any means, but choosing to run XP over 7 in 2011 is incomprehensible.
- noarchy 15y ago
  Today's high end smartphones are more powerful than the last machine on which I ran XP. Vista ran like a bloated pig, but Win 7 seems to be the sweet spot, much like XP was in its time.
  - eropple 15y ago
    Vista wasn't bad after SP1 or so.