from my experience, there is nothing wrong with Win7, it's basically XP but shinier. after the debacle that was Vista (I know) and now the new issues of 8 being absolutely and totally appalling, i thinkit's right that they drop support for XP so they can focus on fixing whatever the hell went wrong at headquarters that allowed two shite OS's to be released to the general public. it's time, everyone will just have to cope or go "off grid" and use linux.
Edit: i don't use linux and have no intention of doing so. my husband says I'm weak for sticking with corporation software. no judgement, but he's a bit strong willed when it comes to software.