The looming end of XP comes up periodically, usually with some mention of needed enterprise and small business software that does not run on anything else. (I

The looming end of XP comes up periodically, usually with some mention of needed enterprise and small business software that does not run on anything else. (I recently noticed that my dentist's systems were running XP; and wondered, without asking, if she could upgrade even if she wanted to.) But I think part of the problem is that it's so inconvenient for an individual to move from an XP machine even if (s)he can--even moving to another XP machine is a pain. I remember our VP turning down a laptop upgrade (this was 2006 or so) because she didn't want to fuss with the settings on a new machine. Coming from a VMS/Unix/Linux background, this just struck me as out-of-place (though, of course, I'd gone through the same difficulty at home).