My post was made in December 2007: over two years ago. How would it have been about Windows 7?

I was specifically referring to WinXP.

That said, while a lot of the changes in Windows 7 are just window dressing, some of that window dressing does seem to make it more usable. The search feature inside the control panel comes to mind. Certainly many of the backwards steps with Vista have been revamped. The constant approval process is the most obvious.

I haven't really used 7 all that much, and I was initially irritated by some of the modifications (and remain so about some of those, specifically the taskbar, which wastes a huge amount of space), but, all in all, I think it's definitely an improvement over Vista, and at the very least, not worse than XP.