Phineas, MS selling you XP is money for jam for them - pure profit and they'll bite you for more for Win7. There's no particular urgency to run Win7 now and you can't know what planning is going on in the back room.
We changed from WinNT to WinXP desktops over a few weeks. Have a look at those banks, government offices and airlines again in September 2013.
Unless MS releases a Win8 Corporate that is radically different to the review release Win7 will be the new WinXP.
Last edited by le Pingouin; 5th July 2012 at 04:32.