XP will be put to pasture (no more updates) by year end or early next year-NO? PPL will be forced to upgrade their Hardware to run WIN 7 or actually buy Vista, can you imagine anyone buying Vista?
WIN 7, 64 bit rocks.
XP=eXPired
I believe that XP is to be updated until at least April, 2014.
Win 7 is the way to go yes, but like someone else said earlier in the thread, even if someone is still using XP by next year, and they want to get a bigger hard drive, ebay will be flooded with literally millions of the older technology hard drives, at very cheap prices, which the XP user can just snap up. In addition, since Microsoft is still selling XP netbooks, they will have no alternative but to provide a fix for XP for the new hard drives. so their OEM’s can be able to install the new hard drives in their netbooks.
Last time I checked, a couple of weeks ago, XP end of support date is April 8, 2014.