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[marklwood]

Originally Posted by Deeter

Why do people keep suggesting this as a solution? Microsoft is abandoning further support or updates of XP as early as June of 2009.

Deeter, you are listening to the market hype that Microsoft wants you to hear. The fact of the matter is they will follow what the market demands. For example, I had to drag out an old machine for a project that required a floppy drive, bi-directional printer port, and Win98. This was just a couple of weeks ago. When I got online to download the software, I got windows updates pushed to me even though they "stopped supporting" Win98 July 11th 2006. That date was even considered "extended support" that only included critical bug fixes. So with that as a measure of when they actually stop support, I would assume we should be good until sometime in 2012. I would hope that we could get a decent replacement operating system by then.