I mean I love Windows 7. Windows 7 is an awesome operating system and I hate Windows 8 with the greatest of passion, but Windows XP is a great Windows OS too and wondering if it is really dead now?
Discussions about the death of Windows XP are quite silly on an Amiga related website, IMHO. We should perfectly know nothing dies unless everybody stops using it forever and that won't be the case for Windows XP as well, for many many years.
From a commercial POV, XP has been already dead since the first netbooks with Windows 7 (replacing XP) came out 18-24 months ago.
From a technical POV, it is already dead since it does not support all the features new programs expect in Windows.
From a security POV it will be dead on April 8th, 2014, when Microsoft will release its latest security bulletin still supporting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (even if I am not pretty sure both systems will die together, maybe Win 2003 EOL can be anticipated).
But from the users POV it will die only when it won't be useful for anything more. Even into virtual machines. It will take AGES, before people will completely replace their favourite XP applications. Bare reality, however, is that new computers can't use XP directly, nor XP can use latest hardware features, so nobody will buy a new PC to install XP onto it.
