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That's good news. It must be noted, though, that MS would like existing users to abandon old machines with XP on it, but given that OS' long life and huge downgrade adoption by most Vista users entitled to it, there are a lot of modern enough systems still using XP, so, given the higher resources XP leaves free for applications, most professional users will keep on delaying system upgrades until either new versions will require it, or, for power users, until future high-end system with Win 7 will offer a significant performance boost compared with current or recent past high-end system with XP. XP is a blessig for users, now that it has acceptable reliability, but it's a burden for MS. A burden it was forced to accept supporting until mid 2014, as its success was so huge (and Vista so appalling) that killing it would have killed MS' monopoly.







