I thought of that and you have a point. But I'd say my other point about Microsoft not really making it easy to upgrade still stands. They really don't do much

I thought of that and you have a point. But I'd say my other point about Microsoft not really making it easy to upgrade still stands. They really don't do much to make upgrading cheap or convenient and although Apple has only been moving in the cheap/convenient direction as far as upgrades are concerned for that past few years you still can't deny that Microsoft has shown itself to be an incredibly slow-moving, stubborn company despite there finally being some real competition in recent years. Its not that Windows is somehow shitty in some way, it's just that Microsoft doesn't do as much to encourage upgrades as they could or should. And this applies mostly to the average consumer. I know you and I can get any OS to run any hardware if we really wanted to but the average person doesn't take any chances and goes with the recommendations on the box. If they could skip the box altogether and get it downloaded and installed that way I'm sure we'd see even less of XP. I'm not so sure that'll happen any time soon though.