XP Home should I keep it? [View all]

[madmax]

I don't use our desktop very often since I bought a laptop 6 years ago. It came with XP installed, with the option to upgrade to Vista free. Needing something portable I bought a Tosiba laptop which came with Vista installed. After two crashes I bought Win7. That too crashed and is acting up. Doesn't seem to be any better than Vista. I don't use the computer for anything fancy. Email, DU surfing the web and photos at the present time.

I have a brand new legal XP Home disk with keycode. I'd like the desktop and the laptop to both run the same program. I'm now using both machines for different reasons. Rumor has it that Win8 will be coming out in Beta in about a month. I may or may not wait to buy a new laptop for that reason.

Everyone says XP is the best Microsoft program and I like it - but, with all the newer OS systems that have come out since XP will it be compatible with newer versions of the programs I use or may want to use in the future. Will there come a time, in the 'near' future that XP will be obsolete? It's been around for a long time. Longer than any of the other ones I've used.

Hope I'm making sense here but, I doubt it Bottom line - install XP on the new laptop I plan to buy or install Win7 on the desktop.

Thanks for any suggestions.