Everything you say about XP is true but at least it is better than Vista. Walk into your local government office, bank and airline and the probability is that they’ll be using XP. The are less than 2 years left for XP and I can’t see them all ugrading by then, if you ask Microsoft nicely they will still sell you XP licenses. I don’t think the metro interface is enough for large corporations to rewite their line of business software.