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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd also make a distinction between my main "workhorse" computer, which I'll probably want to connect lots of peripherals to, and a laptop used for other purposes. For my "main" computer I'd certainly want an o/s with good driver support, and I'd probably hesitate about buying Win8 at the present time for that reason; I have a number of older devices (eg a very good printer which I really don't want to have to replace) which I don't know whether or not have Win8 drivers available. For stability reasons, Win8 is fussier about installing older drivers than Win7 is.
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and for security reasons. my solution to the printer problem is to run a vpc of the compatible software then share the printer. computers are so amazing now, that running an xp server as an xpc is totally trivial.