@ga_trojan, the fail operational autoflight system handles gusty conditions with quite a bit of wind much better than the fail passive ones. I was pleasantly surprised when i tried it in quite windy conditions. That of course is the reason why it has an increased crosswind margin of 25kts.
That said, the days of 40kts crosswind are over for us, we coud do that initially in the classics, then we got a company limit of 35 and the NG with winglets has only a demonstrated crosswind capability of 33kts.