Ditto. I’ll be using XP Pro SP3 until there is something better. I don’t care if MS supports it or not. I’ll still use it.
M-soft is officially supporting XP until 2014, April, I believe. I plan to run our 3 XP machines at least until then and likely way beyond that date, probably as long as I can keep them running.
Unless M-soft comes up with some OS down the road that is better than their current offerings, I won’t be buying any more M-soft OS’s, and Apple machines cost more than I am willing to pay.
Nor MS is until at least sometime in 2013. Still allowing new installs on OEM systems until June 2009 as of a news release in the last couple of days.
You can get the OEM versions at Newegg.com. Decent prices.