Okay..so a friend of mine are going to be building a powerful custom computer..for various things, including a weather station. Now, I'm not asking for any advice here, just your opinions in case you decide to build a computer, or buy a new/used one. In any case, considering that I haven't had any major problems with 7 on my Toshiba laptop (well, except that WMC will not play DVD's, and yet other software will...despite Microsoft's opinion *cough* belief- belief that it's the hardware, which is a crock- on that one).
Other than that, I'll also ask, what have you experienced with any version of Windows that has ticked you off? (the last thing about Windows that ticked me off was on XP..on my old media center computer that used to run my weather cam...viruses killed it, and I've yet to reinstall a fresh Windows XP version. No viruses anymore, but the registry is a freakin' mess. Nothing can fix it..like you guys have said, reinstall the OS...I'll add to it that when that computer was upgraded to SP3, WMC failed to start, which took 6 months to fix by Microsoft, for free..and Vista, which on my Toshiba laptop, was a ton of trouble no matter what.)