Well gee I dunno. In 6 years or so when they are selling only hardware that doesn't work with XP AT ALL then maybe you'll change your mood. Personally I loved XP and liked 9x ALOT but I like progress and don't want to be limited to older hardware. Plus I like to watch my porn and surf unsafely behind MSE and a patched system. I am not saying you can't still use the older OS's BUT I am admitting that without extreme measures they have grown just OBSOLETE. My current systems are no longer XP capable (XP 64 yea, But the first 64 windows really bites the big one) With the ability to have quad, 6 and even Quad-CPU setups the older OS's simply fall to the roadside. Sure they can make guesses at what the future will hold but they are only guesses. I remember a seminar Billy Boy was giving a LONG time ago where he was saying 64megs of ram was possible in the future. Thats MEGS not GIGS!!! Now there are Limitations in current win7 editions of 192gigs! HOLY NUTS! In the future we could see 1,2 or higher TB of RAM!!!! Where will you be then? Call me a MS whore and a slave to the progress but hey I am not ashamed of it.