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"When XP was released in 2001, there was countless whining about it. It was slow, Luna was ugly, it was bloated, etc. 6 years and 3 service packs later, people are now unwilling to leave XP."

Yes, I'd like a little cheese with that whine, thank you very much.

On the other hand, you might want to do just a leeetle bit more analysis there.

How about the XP upgrade was the arguably the first that didn't have people lining up in stores waiting to get their hands on it? At release, you had to upgrade your hardware to make it run without going woof (and 6 + years later, the hardware to make it run without going woof is _cheap_). Maybe folks don't want their OS upgrades make them change hardware - maybe they want to have a decision along the lines of 'if I pay for and install this, I want it to make my hardware seem better ...' Maybe after all those years of having to buy new versions (since there was no such thing as a fix or service pack) and now, fixes and service packs are free (like other OSes have been for decades) and after years of fixes/service packs, it is finally sorta stable and you want me to pay money to change to a first release?

I mean, come on.

I've kept Vista on my laptop so far because
1) It came with two drives, so I can do real things with the OS on the other drive and
2) it embodies everything I haven't missed in the 10 years since I left off even having an MS OS available on a dual boot machine. And more.

It simply confirms how difficult it is to take ones eyes off a train wreck when it is right in front of you ....