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Originally Posted by mithrandir
That might be true in the home market. XP will last longer in the business world because of the number of applications that haven't been ported or the cost of porting - both in software and replacing hardware.
There are still servers running DOS 5 or NT 3.51 because the app won't run on anything newer.
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That is certainly true Andrew. I have 50+ servers that I run virtualised instances of XP on that will remain until the hosts start dying, or I can do the due diligence on to move them off to Win7. Applications aren't the problem typically - it's drivers I have a hell of a time with.
We're always talking about this in reference to IIS members home systems here though.