Microsoft made windows 7 incompatible with this user. It was Windows that changed - not the user. The fact that this user wasn't compatible with reality in the first place doesn't have anything to do with this - It worked fine in XP.
BTW: TRWTF is that none of the first 5 insightfull messages spot the problem (malfunctioning user,bad journalism). If blindly swallowing such an ill-documented story is considered insightfull - what does that say about \.?