[citation][nom]darkavenger123[/nom]I give you a very good reason. Make that a few:1) 64-bit Win XP sucks. You need Windows 7 64-bit to make use of all those cheap RAMs over 4GB.2) XP is long dead with no updates or upgrades.3) Yes, i do want to play DX11 games. Do you want to play PS3 or PS1??4) Most new hardware not optimized for XP.5) Lots of new apps does not work with XP.6) New tech like RST, SRT ...does it works with XP???7) Win 7 boots way faster than XP with new hardware and tons of stuff loaded.8) XP is fugly.Why the hell do you still wants to stick back to dinosaur OS ???Btw, i am day 1 adopter of Vista, Win 7. But i Win 8 i have to dump.[/citation]
1- I do use windows xp 64bits and works fine, like 32 bits does. it can address up to 64GB.
2- I boot my computer on xp, let's say once in a month, and i every time i shutdown i have to wait till the f*** updates finish installing. There are updates! who told you there aren't?
3- I don't have a dx11 graphic card.. so.. win 7 (in my case) is useless.
4- software takes advantage of your hw, windows barely does. (even if you use w7, unless you use sw that takes advantage of quicksync, avx, etc.. you are not going to see any difference)
5- you are right, many applications doesn't work with xp, i can get lots of alternatives.. you don't have to marry with one particular.. (i am a linux user and a sw developer, that is no problem to me)
6,7,8 - yes, xp is 12 years old!! all those things.. i don't have it! it doesn't make any difference which OS i use, and the start procedure of windows xp doesn't takes advantage of more than 1 core when win 7 does!!
simply.. i just don't care, the boot selector takes 8 seconds and i was considering rising it to 10 or 12..
but hey! W7 is faster when it is just installed.. in 3 or 4 month takes much longer than xp..