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OEMs were not allowed to sell new PCs with Windows XP installed after October 2010, but Dell continued to provide XP driver support until December 2012:

http://news.thewindowsclub.com/dell-says-no-more-windows-xp-after-22nd-october-16543/

As Dell said back then: "Per Microsoft guidelines regarding Windows XP, system vendors like Dell will no longer be able to ship systems with XP Professional and XP Home after October 22, 2010. This means that we will stop offering XP as an option for customers starting this month in preparation for next month's deadline. One other important thing to note is that Dell plans to continue Windows XP driver support until December 2012."

Virtually any netbook sold in North America should be able to run XP just fine. Although they lasted longer in other parts of the world, netbooks were pretty much dead here by 2011. By then tablets like the iPad were the hot new thing, and consumers grew tired of the tiny display, slow CPU, limited RAM, and lack of expandability that plagued netbooks -- plus, no one liked the stripped-down Starter edition of Windows 7 that manufacturers put on the last generation of netbooks. (HP was even stupid enough to put Windows Vista on some of their netbooks, with expectedly unsatisfactory results.)

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