agree these were best until microsoft started promoting vista/7/8
7 is still good but use a lot of memory
there is a w8??
Yes there is one yet to release but the Consumer Preview and the Developer Preview are out like months ago.
Consumer Preview - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview
Windows 8 is a revolution in the Operating Systems category and for MS it is a huge entity I must say. Looking forward to the complete product release though.