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Can't say I've used it really, and that's just Vista

Off-topic: of all the operating systems I've ever used, V64 comes a close second behind Win2kPro in my list of favourites.

XP, although a fine OS, lost a lot of points for being visually designed by the same team that gave Fisher-Price toys their distinctive look

Yep, I've never manageed to get on with XP...

Likewise - that and the constant nannying, with balloons popping up all over the place (the 'you have just printed a document' one is especially annoying). It could really have done with an 'expert' mode that switched all that rubbish off.

I migrated straight from W2K to W7, and pretty much skipped XP altogether. I really liked W2K, but so far (with a couple of niggles), I'd say 7 is the worthy replacement that XP and Vista never were. Handy really, because 2K was getting really long in the tooth.

I've lived with XP for about the same length of time as 98SE and unlike most of the tech-heads here, I've never owned 2K. XP has it's problems, but they seem far less in-your-face compared with Vista. It's worked fine for me and done everything I've needed. It's just that 7 looks like a worthy replacement.

I hated XP simply because of the look it had, and the fact that it didn't like my 9200 Pro's drivers

2kPro is my favorite OS of all time though. It just worked, and was fast on just about anything. If I wasn't tied down to a OEM license on this machine and/or could be arsed to set up a dualboot system up, then I would run it on here. I knew all the ins and outs of 2k, and its little niggley faults.

Tbh, I don't like 7 either. Or even Vista that much. Vista just suddenly goes slow after about a week's worth of use, and is a stupid OS. Like a niggle I have now is I have to triple-click stuff on my start menu, when before it was single click. It's the OS that breaks itself.

I think next time I reformat, I will have a dualboot 2000 Pro SP4/vista set up going.

I think XP's biggest problem was, it either felt like a toy and not a professional operating system or it looked "so last century", that I could never take it seriously...