XP is acceptable, not a panacea of genius as KS/WB was compared to Windows v1/8086 in 1985.
7 is a service pack for Vista with GUI downgrade.
Truth is today Windows, ?buntu AND OSX are nothing special. Third party apps is their only saving grace
As for security......not using things that grind my XP install to snail's pace like Norton hasn't killed my XP SP2 in 6 years so who cares.
