Support for Windows XP is ending soon

How can we believe 7 is secure. It's the same old Windows. All the Windows need patching every week.

Not true, it isn't the same old Windows. There are definitely features in Vista,7,8,8.1 that make them more secure and this becomes self evident when you encounter them for the first time and then research what is going on so that you can understand.

But, even if you choose not to believe that succesive Windows versions are no more secure than predecessors and that they aren't different, then your argument means that they are no worse than XP in this respect.

Windows 7 is a bloated pig.

Maybe, but you don't have to eat the parts of the pig that you don't like the taste of.

And I'll be glad when it fades and gets the XP treatment.

So will I and I will happily move on to whatever is the current version, 9 maybe, 10 or whatever.

Windows 7 is Vista in disguise.

Pretty much true. But it is faster on the same hardware specification, the first ever Windows version to be able to claim this. This is fact that I can personally vouch for having switched from Vista to Windows 7 on the same hardware the day that Windows 7 was launched. See here for just one comparison of XP/Vista/Windows 7 (the first that I came across by Googling)...

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/windows-compared-windows-7-vs-vista-vs-xp-615167

...you will see that on the same hardware (which admittedly they chose) they find 7 is actually faster than XP too.

Tricky

Hi. So if I take XP off this computer I'm using, can I install the same XP disc on another computer?

Only if it was a retail version. Also, only if the PC will actually run XP - there is new hardware out there that won't even run Vista let alone XP.

Tricky

In the end a user would have to buy the retail OS version to get the real deal. And download all the drivers manually.       

Not true.

All PCs that I have seen that do not come with recovery media, provide the facility for you to burn the recovery media for yourself using (for example) your preferred DVD-R media.

The recovery partition is there to provide a quicker and more convenient means of recovery than using optical media, regardless of whether or not that media is supplied by the manufacturer.

Tricky

Hi. So if I take XP off this computer I'm using, can I install the same XP disc on another computer?