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XP users - particularly enterprises and SMBs - are holding back on Windows 7 until it's gotten a proper shakeout and more applications are certified to run on the new platform. To them, XP may have more security headaches, but it's more stable for business-critical applications.

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Everything "bad" about Vista—and I use the word in the loosest possible sense, because the things that garnered most complaints have negligible legitimacy—is still "bad" in 7.

Does this make Windows 7 a bad operating system? Not in the least bit.

remember that XP's reception was immensely hostile, and for substantially the same reasons; users migrating from Windows 98 found that the new Windows didn't work with their hardware, didn't work with their software, ran slower, and used more memory. And who would want that? Business users similarly saw little compelling reason to migrate from Windows 2000 (which was then less than two years old), as XP offered them relatively little.

XP should have been replaced by Windows Longhorn in 2004 or 2005, but the cancellation of the Longhorn project and subsequent wait for Vista

the cost of upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 will run $1,035 to $1,930 per user