Misanthrope and cynic that i am i am 100% sure it won't stay that way and all kinds of iffy jailbreakers need to be build to get your own computer to work the way you want it to work. I count myself one of the lucky ones that are out of the rat race and can permit themselves to just not got sucked in and live out my life happily with w7.

Either way it'll take time to find out.  I just think people are a bit quick to jump to conclusions.

If they do stick with the Store being the only normal way to get stuff I'd expect the cost of Windows to drop dramatically.

Either way I'll be extremely happy next year when XP effectively dies out.

(Blue sounds cool too, another note.  Free kernel upgrade.  Right on.  Wish I knew more about it, but I can wait.)

Even with support ending for XP next year I doubt it will die out. People will still continue to use it. 

Why are you happy that XP dies? 

Assuming it does.... I give it at least 2 or 3 more years until the majority of the remaining users has finished dropping it. And probaly replaced it with Windows 7.

Because it is a POC and so old... because it looks like Fisher Price designed the atrocious GUI.

Because there's better OSES out there and it's about time the coffin was nailed shut.

Because MS is wasting time, money and resources on a dinosaur.... money better spent on more modern tech.

Because if it were a horse it'd have been called a nag and shot... put out of our misery long ago.

Because it won't commit the final act itself, so somebody has to cut off its life support.

I've got more, but you get the picture, dontcha?  It is too far past its use by date... and fugly.

But what don't you like about it?  Really.

Well at least one good thing will come of Microsoft ending support for XP. All those listings for those old Pentium 4 machines with XP will disappear from Craigslist.

Ya know what. IMO...Microstuff should roll back to Windows for Workgroups and start over beginning with Win 7, skip 8 and go straight to 9 and 9 should have the functionality of 7 with the advanced goodies inside of 8 minus the Metro look and be skinnable up the wazoo!

And in what world do I live in.

Just noticed my avatar looks like crap.

The only thing really wrong with XP is that it wasn't designed for the current needs of the internet and online security.  XP had a fantastic run, but it's time to move on now to Win7.

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Oh it's not that I don't like it... hehe.  I just never loved it.

I mean, it's not that it was unlovable... um... yes, it was... IS.

Beneath the Fisher Price GUI, though, it did have some redeeming features, like.... uh, no it didn't.

Nah, as hard as I try, I can't find anything nice to say about it.... though I still keep a copy.

That's right, I keep a copy, if only to remind me how Stardock saved my insanity with Windowblinds.

Looks better when it is smaller. Nothing I can do about it.

Yes there is Kona. I checked the size of your avatar and its 50 x 39. It should be 100 x 100 square. Sizing it up makes it blurry. You can re-do it in Photoshop at 100 x 100 or, if you have Illustrator you can re-do it as a vector image that will be nice and crisp.

Sorry, don't mean to hijack.