Upgrading your Office/Home from Windows XP

This task seems to be very easy, just insert the new Windows Disk and upgrade your windows XP machine just clicking next ... right?

well you need to do some work :)

there are 2 things associated to your Windows XP: Hardware and Software

Let start with Hardware: do a list of the hardware in your office/Home: Scanner, Printers, Faxs, Cameras, etc anything that you need to have it attached to your pc
to acomplish your daily duties. After creating the list you need to go to the hardare provider website and check if the hardware is supported by the new windows,
if they have Drivers, or see if they have a replacement that is compatible with it.

About Software, as well as Microsoft is closing Support to Windows XP, several companies will do too, like Oracle and Adobe, so create your second list
and add to it only the software that you really need, again you need to check your software provider and verify if there are new version available for the new OS.

This process should not be really painfull just be organized and the upgrading procedure will be fine and smooth.

Notes:
Keep in mind that upgrading to new OS probably will require more CPU and memory.
Based on Wikipedia, Win 7 was release on October 22, 2009,  4.5 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
DONT UPGRADE TO WINDOWS VISTA PLEASE! (it could happen)
There is a big sector that still uses Windows XP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems