Still using BW 3.5 query designer for BI 7.0 backend

Has anyone worked on an upgrade where only the backend has been upgraded to 7.0 but still using query designer 3.5?
Have there been any query performance issues?
Would you recommend upgrading the query designer to 7.0 soon?

We upgraded to 7.0 a long time ago and there are still some reports running as 3.x queries. It's no problem but there are so many benefits to working with the 7.0 query designer that I don't see the point in not upgrading.
Kind regards,
Alex

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/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/19/businessobjects-and-sap-part-2
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Albaik

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Pritesh.
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