Microsoft will NEVER be free from the support requirements of Windows XP, you know why? Take a look at the photo I took today;
If they can’t get VAR’s from using ancient Windows NT 4.0, they will never be rid of Windows XP 😉
And if Microsoft wanted anyone else to buy Windows Vista, they shouldn’t have invoked The Osborne Effect when they started talking about Windows 7 There isn’t a major corporation that will install Vista now, not when Win-7 is right behind, which is more suited to a corporate deployment timeline.