[SmokingJoe]

Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought that was the point of the article under discussion -XP users are are of luck - left in the cold by MS for not upgrading to vista or win 7

The new had drives are not out till January next year. Microsoft is still selling Windows XP on netbooks. How do you suppose Microsoft is going to keep selling XP netbooks and not put in a fix to allow XP users to benefit fully from the new hard drives?

[J Edgar]

Good question SmokingJoe - time will tell!
My bet is that MS will screw the end users.

[DaveMSmith]

How do you suppose Microsoft is going to keep selling XP netbooks and not put in a fix to allow XP users to benefit fully from the new hard drives?

Netbooks typically have a small 16GB solid state 'hard drive'. The article is talking about physical disk formats over 2TB.