for an operating system to demand 6GB of memory, when an older one do just fine with 3GB running the same software, well...thats shit in my book
You need a new book. Really.

Adding more features to an OS doesn't usually make it demand less memory.

With memory being as cheap as it is these days, coding for minimal memory usage tends to take a distant second place to coding for high performance which can include things such as avoiding alignment faults by deliberately "wasting" memory.

On-topic though, this discussion - and the comments from both solidly encamped sides of the discussion - reminds me of a similar discussion here a long, long time ago when I was looking for Vista support, although I didn't even manage to secure a "on the list" before I dived in and had a go with it in any case

It's good to know that there are actually problems with KC and Windows 7 though - I'll be sure to keep that off my multibox machines until they're resolved.

Thanks for the heads-up.