Will Windows 7 finally kill Windows XP?

[averyblund]

Well so far the betas have been good and Win7 is looking like a nice upgrade. But if anybody remembers the Vista/XP betas they were better than the release version in many ways as well. With me I generally wait for SP1. To me Win7 comes off like what Vista SP1 should have been. It still isn't great, and doesn't live up to the feature set MS promised from even Vista, but it seems to be a big step forward.

Will it kill XP? For consumers its likely. But for biz XP just works better and a variety of HW and legacy apps. Much of the eye candy which is a boon for consumers is a bane for corporations.