They’ll have to pry my XP from my cold, dead hands.
But what would be really nice is a meta-OS, something where you could roll your own interface over a collection of interchangable, interoperable OS objects. What a cool secondary market that would make. What freedoms we could enjoy. Why should we be subjected to the tyrannical whims of the capricious self-proclaimed OS deities at MS? Occupy the OS!
Just kidding. XP will work for now. Probably forever, for what I do. But I am hedging my bets. I run my XP on a Mac via Bootcamp. Best of both worlds.
RE: They’ll have to pry my XP from my cold, dead hands.
Then you’ll be technically DEAD by 2014.
Microsoft announced end of support for XP and all XP related products (e.g. Office ) on April 8,2014
See here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx