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Skybird · 10-28-12, 07:43 AM

I had no troubles and needs to re-orientate myself at all when going from XP to 7 early last year when getting a new system. Hadling is almost the same.

However, Darren, weigh your praise for XP against this: statistics showed that last month (or the one before) was the first month when the number of PY systems in the world operating under W7 is no bigger than the number of systems running XP. But the number of security issues and rootkit and trojan infections on XP systems is counted to be m ore than twice as high than on W7.

You may not like some details or handlings where you have to make slight adjustements in your ways of how to install a software or do something else (nothing really serious in there anyway), but the truth remains to stay that XP by today'S threat level is a rather unsafe OS, and W7 being very superior regarding inbuild malware defences and security measures that in ordinary operation you do not realise to be there. Frequent Windows Updates do not change this, since XP simply lacks several key technologies and features that W7 has. And in slightly more than one year, free Windows Updates will not be comign anymore anyway, so then you either leave XP anyway, or you get stuck with an increasingly endangered system that also poses a risk to others.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,680 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I had no troubles and needs to re-orientate myself at all when going from XP to 7 early last year when getting a new system. Hadling is almost the same. However, Darren, weigh your praise for XP against this: statistics showed that last month (or the one before) was the first month when the number of PY systems in the world operating under W7 is no bigger than the number of systems running XP. But the number of security issues and rootkit and trojan infections on XP systems is counted to be m ore than twice as high than on W7. You may not like some details or handlings where you have to make slight adjustements in your ways of how to install a software or do something else (nothing really serious in there anyway), but the truth remains to stay that XP by today'S threat level is a rather unsafe OS, and W7 being very superior regarding inbuild malware defences and security measures that in ordinary operation you do not realise to be there. Frequent Windows Updates do not change this, since XP simply lacks several key technologies and features that W7 has. And in slightly more than one year, free Windows Updates will not be comign anymore anyway, so then you either leave XP anyway, or you get stuck with an increasingly endangered system that also poses a risk to others. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.