I must be one of the last to die out using XP

There's no way that I could go back to XP. With XP you need to use nLite and do all sorts of fussing about to get a good experience, with W7 I just install and then barely do a thing to get it how I want. Huge upgrade in security and usability.
 
Our Uni computer lab recently upgraded to Win 7 from XP x32 on all but one computer (for legacy software). I, and I think most of the others that use it, cheered. XP is old, ugly and just not as intuitive as Vista and 7 are (which makes sense considering MS built on things they earned from XP). Programs don't constantly crash now and using word 2010 over 2003 is like night and day. The only issue is they turned it to the classic view for some unknown reason so thinks like quickpeek are turned off and the stupid resize window thing is still turned on! :(

Shame about the rest of the uni still running on XP but :D because I don't have to suffer with the undergrads...
 
I've only just switched to Win7 64bit from XP a few weeks ago on my main gaming rig at home. Running an SSD for the OS drive and it flies :)

I've been using Win7 32bit for at least a year and a half on my work laptop and find it very stable. The boot times for the OS is much quicker than XP and I don't have any BSODs or crashes even though I'm running old software natively in Win7.

I can see why people are reluctant to run Win7 because of the Vista fiasco but from my experience, Win7 is by far the best consumer Windows OS currently available.
 
Still rocking XP on my Dell m170 as a "oh god I've broken my PC and need to get online for a fix" backup.
Not sure a Pentium M 2.13GHz would enjoy Win7.
 
I had XP 64bit back in the day - on my s939 rig I was "Well I've got a 64bit Processor, so **** you I'm putting a 64bit OS on it". It was... interesting.




Windows 7 is fine on old hardware :).

I've got an old Latitude D610 (use it as a garage laptop, need the serial port to connect to the car) and that's running Windows 7 32bit fine. Got drivers for everything (WiFi, bluetooth, etc) and shoved 2GB of RAM in it (had it lying around). Processor is a Centrino single core one (Pentium M 760 2.00GHz IIRC) and the screen's 14" but a nice 1400x1050. Graphics is an ATi X300 and it even runs Windows Aero :D. Hard drive in it was pretty slow (4200RPM IIRC) so I put in a SpinPoint M5 HM160HC - one of the fastest 2.5" IDE HDDs ever made.
 
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