:o windows xp was flawless, take that back! or... at least after SP1 it was. What was the issues you had with it out of interest Nova?

I will do no such thing! I learned computer stuffs in school starting with MSDOS (don't remember the exact version). The fancier ones had Windows 3.1. They all ran beautifully. Then at home we had a Windows 95 PC run by sweet ass Pentium 166Mhz which was a damn fine machine. That thing treated us so well, we skipped right over everything up to XP. And then XP.. blue screens of death as far as the eye could see, system files being corupt for no apparent reason, and just regular random crashes and bugs. PC Hardware really seemed to go to hell around then too. We burnt through 3 or 4 XP machines. I wasn't as computer savy then as I was now, so that's really as specific as I can be. Knowing what I know now, I could have probably fixed most of them, but damn..

Then with the whole Vista fiasco.. We just went Mac. I have a billion consoles and games, so lack of Mac games is not an issue for me. My parents current computer is a 2009 Mac Mini running Leopard that's been problem free, and mine is a 2009 Macbook Pro running Yosemite. The only issue I'm having with it is the battery needs to be replaced soon. iStat Menus says it's been cycled 758 times and only holds 64% of its original charge potential. So basiclly very happy with Apple computers so far.

Flawless? After installing sp3 I could throw my father in law's old pc away, stuck in an endless reboot cycle, no way to undo. A known problem, I found out later, with certain processors that was never fixed. And since he couldn't find the original installation discs anymore, and no backup ofcourse, it was done.
Plus nothing but trouble trying to get XP to communicate with Windows NT reliably, then vista. I resorted to using thumb drives to move files.

At least XP booted fast and 'only' used 200MB memory, as opposed to the resource hogs that came after.

My windows 7 pc is dying atm. I get random blue screens a little bit after startup. Interrupts that are not received or general machine check errors. Please disconnect any new hardware and try again, no more info. Sometimes it just freezes altogether, mouse light and keyboard lights turn off, and the only solution is to pull the plug.

My wife has a Windows vista laptop that has been getting worse over time.

I use a Windows 8 laptop that has been very stable so far. Except for vgchartz regularly freezing in Firefox with this script seems busy, debug or cancel. Then it happens again right away until I manage to close the offending browser window. And Civilization beyond earth not willing to minimize / suspend on alt-tab, making navigating the desktop very difficult and sluggish.

I really don't care for live tiles... in the start menu or otherwise. There is only one feature I really like and that is the ability to have multiple desktops like Linux

Looks like Windows 8.5 to me.

looks a bit cluttered to me, makes me wonder why i would launch facebook from start> metro bit> facebook instead of desktopshortcut > facebook.. seems a bit double

Live tiles show more information then shortcuts, which was the mentality behind having them in the first place. At the same time, the start menu is completely customizable, in can be resized and live tiles are entirely optional.

XP is overhyped, its simple but buggy, not as bad as vista but a lot less stable then 7.

7 is less stable then 8, but is much better productively for PCs

10 is supposed to be 7/8 design and 8 stability, no more of that full screen crap.

Windows 10 will be glorious
i already like 8, but 10 are only more improvements