XP is dead in two years (April 2014 is the end of any kind of support for it). I cannot see how it is in Microsoft's interests to put out new functionality for

XP is dead in two years (April 2014 is the end of any kind of support for it). I cannot see how it is in Microsoft's interests to put out new functionality for it at this point. Any large corporation will have switched away from it by then (their risk assessments will force that), so that's the point you can start using the new functionality.