If it's lightweight compared to Win 7 and Vista, I could be so lucky to be able to skip, on my desktop, not only Vista, but Win 7 too. But if it happens to become another Vista, I'll have to choose between staying safe with Win 7 or waiting for Win 9. Booting Windows only for games, though, I'm still perfectly fine with XP, wonderful thing its 1 billion user base gave it such a mighty power on both HW and SW devs, maybe Win 2000 was even better, it was simpler and more robust and I had to abandon it only because some new HW didn't support it anymore, but with XP, for the first time, I've not been compelled for a long time to upgrade either for HW or SW compatibility issues, and most probably I won't be for at least another two years, if not even until the end of extended support in April 2014 (not using any other MS SW but Windows, whatever MS tries before XP appointed end of life won't touch me, only 3rd party SW could force me to upgrade before, but with XP huge user base they have no interest to drop XP compatibility earlier than its death unless they absolutely need 64-bit addressing).
Anyway, I'll most probably get Win 7 on my next laptop, so I'll gather personal experience and more infos to decide. And on laptops too I'll have skipped at least Vista, very good.
