When Microsoft announced it would stop selling and using XP, we ran out and bought the remaining XP software from Amazon, and somewhere else. We bought a machine that had Vista. It was just not compatible with a lot of software that we still use to today.

Microsoft still offers updates and such for XP. They have not stopped. Not even requests to update to a new OS.

Prior to Microsoft sending out that announcement, we needed a new computer. It had Vista on it. HORRIBLE. HATED IT! We immediately changed it back to XP.

My laptop that I do all of my work from does have Windows 7. It's okay, I still prefer XP.

You can still find XP software out there. I do know for a fact it integrates very well with bootcamp. One of our editing computers is a Mac, it's maybe 6 months old. It is running XP through bootcamp. The rest of the specs on it, I have no clue.

Food for thought I guess.