Quote Originally Posted by Lord Orwell
nah. xp will be good for a while yet. They just recently stopped delivering patches for 2000 (except critical ones) so i figure xp has a few years of service yet. Their site claims 5 years of support after a product is obsolete but in the case of 98 it went a little longer.

Of course, even in my company used XP Pro edition around three years. Up to now Microsoft service is fine. But I'm not sure this because my company doesn't have that much of level, one of my friends say this.

If a company which has become Microsoft Certified partners, they lucky to get the service for lifetime. Yesterday evening I go through the Microsoft web site about that and no luck to find anything.