Irrelevant. You're missing the point entirely. It's not about the current market.
It's about an unfilled need. Businesses *need* to run their existing proprietary software. Since existing products like Vista and Mac and Linux won't let lots of XP/2000/NT/98 business software run on new machines...that means that there is an unmet market demand for an OS that runs old software on new hardware.
And any student of capitalism will tell you that an unmet need, especially when well financed, will eventually be filled by the Market.
Which is to say, MicroSoft is making a grand strategic blunder by rolling out and sticking with an OS that isn't backwards compatible with a Trillion Dollars worth of legacy business software.
And please, stop repeating that no one fills that need any better. Slap yourself and catch on to the fact that there is a large unmet need out there.
So there’s a need for XP in some environments is all you’re telling me, which I agree with. But it’s still an option, no one has taken it away. You can still buy new licenses for Windows 2000 from CDW, if that’s what you truly need. You seem to be dreaming up some imaginary, unnecessary product to replace XP for some people who still need XP. But they can get XP, so it’s really not a problem. Trying to switch to some imaginary currently unknown product = problem.