I recently upgraded my parents from XP to Windows 7, and it wasn't a very pleasant transition. Mostly, miscellaneous peripherals don't work anymore, because the

I recently upgraded my parents from XP to Windows 7, and it wasn't a very pleasant transition. Mostly, miscellaneous peripherals don't work anymore, because the companies never released Win7 drivers. So I can see why some people are holding back. They're older peripherals of course, but perfectly serviceable still, except for the lack of drivers. For the scanner I did actually find a third-party driver package (http://www.hamrick.com/ http://www.hamrick.com/) that'll make it work for $40. But for $40 you can just buy a new scanner and junk the old one, as wasteful as that sounds. It'd be nice if Microsoft would just buy this guy out and include his drivers as Win7 standard. Some scientists I know have bigger upgrade problems, because equipment more specialized than scanners isn't always so easy to replace, and there is a bunch of miscellaneous lab equipment that connects to an XP computer for basic data-logging and control. On the plus side, you can at least isolate those computers from the internet.