On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:21:04 -0000, Jim Hawkins wrote:

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

If you're going to change, why not go straight to 8 and have a more up to date OS with better hardware support (it does UEFI properly for a start) and nicer more sensible interfaces for file copying etc? The metro interface is the only thing that's annoying, but you don't have to use it. Simply delete all the links to the stupid news and weather apps and use the metro screen like a huge full screen start menu. And the start button, contrary to popular belief, is still there, it's just invisible - you can click bottom left as though it was there. And if you apply the patch to 8.1 it puts it back anyway. Oh and it starts MUCH faster than 7.

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