If that was the case, people would move on from older OS'es only when the support for them starts to disappear, and it's just not the case (just like they've started replacing XP now, despite it supporting all the new stuff still). People in general actually love the new features it brings (tons of them -- even for the average end-user e.g. cleartype or sleep that works), the eye candy, the stability, the newer faster more reliable hardware, the new things they can do with their computers (like watching HD content), there's about a billion different reasons for IT departments too (better GPO, better deployment stuff, etc). Yep, people are moving away from older OS'es because they found something genuinely better. Yes, again because running on a grossly outdated POS computer with specs worse than those found in dumpsters is the only thing that matters. You should "upgrade" to MS-DOS 1.0 then. Since it's your only criteria, the only versions of any OS you're ever going to like are those older than what you're using now. You're certainly never going to upgrade to anything else. "upgrade to ms dos 1.0" dont be a smart a** just becasue i got a old computer dosent mean you gotta be a little dip s*** to me i got a vista laptop so dont tell me am never going to upgrade but i seen how the eye candy and slow downs and all the other crap of xp and vista can get really annoying and dont say its a s*** computer 2 gb of ram 1.5 centrino dual core