With windows 8 on the horizon I took the time and actually found my Windows XP professional install disk, so I'm currently duo booting between windows 7 and xp.

Many people are getting frustrated with simplifying an OS, with OSX it's user experience only enhanced it practically stayed the same and was only upgraded from time to time. With windows, for the longest time it's user experience was just enhanced and got better with each release. But came windows 8, the metro idea is neat if it was executed properly, I.E. it should have been an application launcher as in it's own application much like launchpad for OS X Lion. The new start menu is something that I've hated and hope it's changed as XP and vista/7 got it down perfectly, why is it necessary to click 3 times more than just clicking on the start menu and searching for an app? What gives Microsoft? Bill Gates, you need to do something! They're ruining your OS!

Now brings the actual topic question, do any of you boot into other versions of windows from time to time? Like XP, windows 2000, ME(LOL, it was the vista of it's day), 98/95, 3.1?
I'm currently only booting between XP and 7 and for the most part ruby and rails works perfectly under XP and does almost every hardware component and practically almost every application for windows works under XP. So when's the next real upgrade? As with every new version of windows the other version is usually faded out in 5 years after the new versions released but with XP it should have been faded out by now and actually it's extended to 2014 but all hardware and software developers will support it until 2020 when Microsoft officially removes life support.

I really enjoy older versions of windows especially older than XP, I love 2000 and 98, ME was great and I never had problems with it when it was actually supported, never crashed, never once had a BSOD ever in my entire life(not exaggerating either) maybe I'm just lucky or actually know how to use a computer unlike the idiots.

I still have some really old games I will randomly play on my old 3.1 (B Floppy Disks, the really huge ones, lol), but I do have a 98 (HP), 2000 (Compaq), ME (HP), and several XP computers (1 Gateway, 2 Dell, and 2 Vaio) that I use for random things. I don't duo boot though, as I have a separate computer for each (it just makes more sense to me, since I bought (or received as a gift) each of those computers in their prime, lol).
At any rate, the only one I don't have, and wouldn't want to have or use, is Vista.
I'm running 7 on this PC, but I also have two Macintosh computers (both are Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard).

I've only had problems with Vista, which is why I don't own a computer with Vista on it, lol.

I saw Windows 8 being advertised (somewhere), but it just looks like a Microsoft attempt to recreate the iPad on a computer, lol.
At least... that was the last I checked.
So I'm not too thrilled about it, but I might be interested in it depending on how useful it actually ends up being.

Lol, I had mini-tower with XP on it, and when I say "mini" I mean it. This thing was only for $100 and had 512mb of RAM and had 3.1Ghz (how, idk?). I ran that from 2007 - 2011 beginning Aug.! How did I do it? Easy, I was too poor to build a computer. Oh, I forgot to mention that it had a 29GB hard drive!
My biggest accomplishment was running Sims 2 on that! I played through so many sims that I built a grave yard with 15+ tombstones! That's a lot of play time! But yes, it did ran slow as shit running it. I guess It was still good for old games such a NoX and RCT 1 and 2... Sorry, and StarCraft. I tried running RCT3... And got it to work at 25fps!
I never turned off that computer (or put it to sleep)(... Okay maybe 4 times total and that's about it,) that it was quite! Like really quite! I thought the Hard Drive was going to snap. I mean, I kept RCT2 up for over a month to see if my park would keep a steady profit (it didn't).
Holy sh* that computer was so old that my internet was faster then that....
Now that I got a custom built computer ready for SC2 graphics, my dad decides to get shitter internet. Ugggg... At least it's faster when not playing any online high-ping-required game.

Overall, that computer lived and owned. I do find that Windows 7 has problem when it comes to drivers... Plug it into this port and install drivers again... But doesn't read in the previous?

Lol, I had mini-tower with XP on it, and when I say "mini" I mean it. This thing was only for $100 and had 512mb of RAM and had 3.1Ghz (how, idk?). I ran that from 2007 - 2011 beginning Aug.! How did I do it? Easy, I was too poor to build a computer. Oh, I forgot to mention that it had a 29GB hard drive!