The simplest way is to just drag files you want from your XP machine, to the hard drive and then do the same on the Windows 8 machine. Somethings you might just have to do manually.

XP was released in 2001. Something are bound to be different and no longer supported.

In terms of legacy support, Windows 7 64-bit dropped support of 16-bit programs. Windows 8 64-bit supports 32-bit programs just fine, just like Windows 7.

And, as it was already stated, you can install whatever software you'd like just like any other Windows OS.

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