On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mark Hanchey wrot= e: > I once used windows xp for development but had windows 7 on my desktops. > It seemed to be a good OS overall so I then put windows 7 on my > development computers as well. Lately though I have been annoyed by > several things that I didn't encounter with xp. IDE applications that > have access violations and close, programs that once worked but now > don't due to things like inability to access the parallel port and just > general bugs and errors here and there. Some applications will not run > at all and just close because they were written for windows 98 and > unfortunately the creators are no longer around or don't have new > versions. I tried compatibility options but still some don't work. > > I can work around most of these, but I was wondering what others are > doing. Are you staying with an older OS for compatibility or are you > toughing it out slowly changing to a newer OS ? I am at the point of > considering going back to xp for my development pc but I hate the idea > of going to an OS I know will not be supported in the future. Curious > what others are doing here . > I had the same issues. Microsoft makes such crap. Linux never failed me. Pick your favourite distro and rock on. But if you /have/ to use winbloze, I guess XP is the way to go since most programs are known to work on it. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .