thats why i keep xp on my hard drive
Yes, but since I need 64-bit support I was forced to install Vista.
But apart from this I still would use XP for sure.
Most companies I know use XP and new hardware comes with XP pre-installed and an option to upgrade to Vista. Nobody uses it. It was even the other way around. I had to make some downgrades from Vista to XP.
i'm pretty sure that win7 will be the same fiasco as vista was. if not way worse.
I am not that sure, since Win7 gets lots of good previews and the release candidate got lots of good words and good benchmarks. So many people are interested in it.