I tend to agree, having tried both there really is no point in upgrading , everything in Vista and 7 i can do in XP , its just fine.Photo editing, accounts, music recording and video editing. Some might upgrade if things dont work well in XP, but for me... i havent had any problems with XP in 8 years.
The looks of Vista and 7 is a definite turn off for me also. If i wanted the fuzzy see through effects i'd hang net curtains over my TFT lol.

I have win XP pro and win 98 on one pc and win 7 on an old testing machine AMD Athlon 64 3400. Oh and win 95 on an IBM Laptop.

Out of all the Operating systems I play around with I have come to the conclusion that XP has had far more work done and is much better all round.

I did like Vista at first until I was stuck with old printer and scanner problems, Mainly drivers and the compatability mode was a no go for some of the graphics packages which are far too expensive for me to upgrade.

Windows 7 is proving to be a pain too.

I'm also learning to use Ubuntu 8.3 and although its very good I find having to type instructions into a kind of prompt is a few paces backwards. ie to get flash player to work with firefox.

Having said all that I can apprieciate that win 7 is only a Beta at present. But I don't think I'll be upgrading when it is released. XP has still got masses of scope.

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I agree with anskyber it's mostly nonsense.

I use XP pro on my laptop and have to say although I won't upgrade the laptop I have moved to Win7 on the desktop and love it. Think Win7 is better than XP pro though.

Again the only probs I had was the X-Fi drivers, someone here sent me them and everything is great now.

I would buy Win 7 - it but again depends on the price.