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Windows XP.

It is sufficient to run almost all altcoin clients if you are not mining (they are nearly built for Win32 by default.)
You can assign a separate VM to each client (no real opportunity for malware.) The overhead of a WinXP VM is not too large. Just don't give it write access to the host HDD!
Fast User Switching is harder to exploit than sudo or UAC because sessions/processes are isolated
There is no other OS so well-debugged for so long that is still having new software developed for it. Comparable Linux/BSD/OSX versions (i.e. those with no new features for a decade) are long abandoned.

Aren't windows xp obsolete and abandoned from microsoft already? I mean no updates not anything. I remember reading a roadmap about future support of os by microsoft but i can't seem to find it now.

EOL is April 14, 2014

Despite this lots of people still use XP =(

There is nothing wrong with XP. Yes no more updates after April of 2014 but it is a solid OS.

XP's network stack could be easily manipulated to do sniffing functions, you didn't have to worry about UAC. Besides 98, Microsoft got it right with XP.

7 is nice, but compatibility for older programs is problematic, 64 bit support is great for newer systems with more than 3 gig of ram, and the fact you can run 32bit programs is nice on the 64bit version.

I still know people who are using XP and they still love it!

Whenever I have to use any windows based programs, I have a XP vm just for it. Hell, I would still use 98se if I could.