I was a big fan of Xp, was using it from the day it was released. I hated vista. Used it for a few days and nothing would work without actually searching everywhere for an answer. Treated you like you were a dumbass.
But win7 i gotta say a lot lot better than xp, and i am VERY impressed!!
i went from xp to W7 on the home pc and it was flawless. everything worked out the box, no drivers or anything needed to be upgraded or changed.
On the laptop i did a full format and i thought id have to spendhours installing all the driver but the only thing i had to install was the fingerprit reader software, it had actually had drivers for it.
i tried to install the graphics card but neither the xp or vista drivers would work, and i thought here we go, but to my surprise, after a restart i had a pop up come up saying windows had new updates and would you believe one of them was my nvidia graphics drivers!
Its so much faster, works seamless with everything and it doesnt treat you like an idiot. you dont have to confirm everything a million times!