There's an excellent article on post-April XP use, by Rick Maybury in today's Saturday Telegraph. Page 12 of the Business Section.
It confirms what many professionals* have said to me over the past months.
*Professionals without an axe to grind, BTW., so probably not contributing to this particular thread.
I still fail to see why I should waste my time now
I only asked WHAT are the great developments in hardware and software over the last 20 years ?
FYI, I have a PC running XP tied to the usual peripherals and a WIN8 laptop, ditto, side by side on my desk, both up and running, I use both, and I cannot see any effects of supposed "great developments" between the two since both do what I want to do in a comparable time (since most of what I do is on the Cloud which means I'm tied to the speed of the shared WiMax link)....unless you mean the touchscreen (which I don't use).
Of course if you are going to mention portable computing such as phones, pads, tablets etc. I agree with you wholeheartedly - but that wasn't to what I was referring.