Do you have a citation for "Microsoft pressuring hardware makers not to offer XP drivers?" I'm sure they are pressuring them into offering Vista/7 drivers but I

Do you have a citation for "Microsoft pressuring hardware makers not to offer XP drivers?" I'm sure they are pressuring them into offering Vista/7 drivers but I'd be surprised if they were telling them to stop offering XP drivers. People want maximum benefit for minimal investment. My friend just bought a 2005 Corolla instead of a 2009 Corolla. The 2009 model is much better, but it isn't 225% better to match its cost. It is the same thing with XP and Vista. There really are a lot of important benefits to upgrading to Vista from XP and from IE6 to IE8. But, people aren't convinced that it is worth the cost of upgrading. Especially now that Windows 7 is around the corner, nobody wants to roll out a new Vista deployment that is already obsolete. Instead, the companies that avoided upgrading are going to save a lot of money upgrading directly to IE8/Win7. And, they are probably not going to upgrade from IE8/Win7 for another 5-10 years. By the way, the #1 reason for having this virtualized XP feature is to run IE6 inside of Windows 7. Some companies that didn't upgrade their internal web apps to with with IE7/IE8 are going to save a lot of money because of that.