POS-Ready 2009 could be a handy alternative. Let's hope there is a way to run MS-Office on that. MS
As I said above, for those people thinking of jumping on the silly idea of using POS rather than migrating to Windows 7 or 8...
READ THE LICENSE AGREEMENT. For a start, no, you cannot run Office on it, they explicitly tell you that in the agreement.
POS-Ready is a specific product for a specific application. POS = Point of Sale.... your home computer (or office computer) is not a Point of Sale.
People should just bite the bullet and move to 7 or 8 rather than clinging on to old stuff.