Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have read many of the posts here. I am getting a sense that many people see WinXP, Vista or 7 as a destination. Ladies and gentlemen, XP, Vista and 7 are an operating system with the primary duty to provide access to your work tools. I spend, or wish to spend, as little time as possible with the operating system. I want my machine to start instantly, I want the access points to my tools, software, to be directly in front of me and that give me instant access to them. In short the operating system should be transparent. I am not so archaic as to want to go back to Win3.1, however, if the graphical interface is to be modern, it should carry no overhead in doing so. XP itself has too much overhead to accomplish what an operating system should do. I know that some use many of the features I do not, but the option should be made available to load or not to load many of these features, not just to be able to turn them off or on. Windows Vista and 7 add even more redundant features that slow down my access to the tools I need to do my job. Right now XP provides me the most transparent access to my machine and tools; there is no reason to change. Until M$ understands this and provides a tool that is more efficient than XP at accomplishing this task, there will be no need to upgrade. I fully understand that at some point I will be forced to, however, I don’t see the requirement in the near future.
