May I ask you why you linked to a story that disprooves your post? did you even read them before linking them here?
Win 7 being closer to XP than Vista doesn't make Win 7 better than XP. $4000 of credit card debt is better than $10000 of credit card debt, but its still not zero or in the positive range.
Windows 7 is better then xp not the same. you get the same performance of xp while getting a much better and more graphically intensive user interface, a 64bit version that is the same , and other things. So 7 is not the same as xp.