hes actually likes Norton Internet Security so his points are irrelevant

and i cant believe you've had a bad experience virus wise with XP
I'll admit it isn't perfect, but unlike vista i could update my free 1 years MS Office trial & still retain functionality (yes it came up that my copy of office isn't genuine after installing the office service packs) I've had no viruses on XP... well just the one i got from a bad psp app and that was before i installed MSE and even then all it did was tamper with IE (which i don't use)
And Captain, you might have had faulty hardware, ive got XP running smoothishly (not fast but decent enough) on a 1Ghz P3 with 576mb sd ram & 64mb ATI AGP graphics, that pc is now about 12 years old & still runs well (came with Win 98)
I did have the 7 beta installed alongside Xp & Vista but XP ruined that for me when the boot loader got corrupted (NTLDR is missing) and thus i couldn't be arsed to faf about repatching 7 back in
it did feel nice but they've removed synth sound emulators from it and so the FME emulators i use have sound issues on older machines & that puts me off switching (only solution is run XP in a virtual pc, but why do that when i can still use XP properly?)
I may give 7 another go as it is a large improvement on 7 & i can stand Vista..... just about