On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:35:46 -0000, Adrian wrote:

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:28:04 +0000, Clive George wrote:

What do you gain by upgrading from XP Pro to Win 7 Pro ?

Support/patches.

Right now, this is the big one.

XP won't support any version of IE above IE8, and - of course - even if
you use a different browser, Windows can't have IE removed. They're very
soon stopping all security patches for XP, although IE8 might continue
until W7's support ends. It wouldn't surprise me AT ALL if there's a big
security hole that'll never be patched heading to XP very shortly.

If you don't use IE, who cares?

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