Windows XP Departs: Good Riddance or Sad Farewell?
Two of PC World's most opinionated editors weigh in on whether Microsoft Windows XP's departure is bad for PC users or the best thing that could happen to computing.
Robert Strohmeyer and Edward N. Albro,

The forced retirement of Microsoft's Windows XP is set--with some exceptions--for Monday. To quell XP separation anxiety and the rancor of seething Vista haters, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows XP updates and security patches until April 2014.

Robert CardinPersonally, I never liked XP. I did run it on my daily workhorse PC--out of sheer computer-magazine-editing necessity, but my preferences leaned toward Mac OS X and Linux, both of which offered superior stability, performance, and usability even then.

Only when I booted up a beta of Windows Vista--with its streamlined interface, protected kernel, and improved networking tools--did I began thinking of Windows as a modern OS again.

I will miss it. I have been running Vista for a year now, but it will be sad to see XP go, as it was really the first windows OS that looked nice. I will probably still use XP on older machines.
So does this mean that copies of XP on ebay etc will come down in price?? Or will it go up?

I've noticed Walmart dropped the price on XP PRO Office to 100.00.

Time to move on again Vista will be replaced end of 2009 begining of 2010, time and tide wait for no man( OS). Having said that I liked XP but love Vista, XP is still a nice OS but is now an old lady now. Now looking forward to Windows 7 and wondering if Microsoft make as bigger c**k up of premoting that as they did with Vista.

Windows 7 should be nice
i look foward to it, maybe MS will finally have a perfect OS :P

Not much chance of that, the day Microsoft bring out a OS that does not need patches and SP's will be the day that the earth meets its doom with a very large meteor.We are doomed I tell you we are doomed.

dont worry bootneck :P
we're not doomed, there's OS X

Hooray, perhaps we will all change to Linux which is free for all and not have to pay Microsoft a penny, then the meteor may miss us after all

OS x uses some Unix.

yup.
at the moment tho, the best programs wont work on linux :/
i have tried ubuntu and kubuntu, and they are good, but included software is baaaadddd