Wonder if there are any statistics comparing the migration from 98/ME/2000 to XP. As I recall, XP had some serious issues during its first year of release that weren't corrected until SP1 came out.

I'd like to see a breakdown of homeusers vs business users as I believe that the percentage of home users sticking to XP is probably lower whereas a lot of business's are hanging onto there old XP setups.

MS should have stopped releasing updates for XP but they will continue till 2014
XP should be killed

Wow, seems to be a lot of XP hate going on here. I for one am glad they are still supporting it. I'm on a fixed income and can't afford to upgrade every PC I own to the latest and greatest OS when they come out. It took me a long time to acquire them and I'd like to get the most use out of them as I realistically can. They wouldn't run windows 7 even if I could afford it. You could argue that XP isn't as secure as Vista or windows 7 and thus should be shelved, but keep in mind that a large majority of that 66% will likely keep on trucking with XP patched or not. Do you really want that? I don't. Eventually that old hardware will die and people will have to buy new. New system with new OS. XP will eventually just fad into the sunset, I don't see the need to take it out behind the shed and shoot it though. Just my 2 cents, not meant to offend anybody so if I did my apologies.

It remind me about a lot of supermarkets and other kind of shops using arcaic cobol systems in old win98 computers and sounds crazy but they are happy with this ****