Next year XP Pro will be at the end of cycle... What's your ROI going to look like then when you don't have security updates and are at a liability because you have holes all over the place? If you are using custom apps that won't work with Win7 or Vista then your programmers need to get off their c# butts and work in the now... Not the yesterday.. I mean.. I thought cobalt was dead.. It's a mentality such as this that keeps the U.S. behind in technology.. But then again.. The comment is coming from a Linux user.. And Fedira? Come on... Umbuntu is the way to go man...