>>> Valid point. But in a commercial setting, pretty irrelevant.
>>
>> It will become relevant when Microsoft inevitably stops supporting XP.
>>
>> It might not happen next month, or even next year, but the clock is
>> ticking.
>
> What do you mean "when"? This has already happened.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP
>
> "Mainstream support ended 14 April 2009."

Corporate is NOT mainstream.   You can bet your ass off that if Bank Of 
America, HSBC, LuftHansa, or the Deptartment of Defense finds a weird 
problem in XP, they still have ways fo making MS cough up a patch for them.

IBM still unofficially supports OS/2 for the same reason.
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