Quote Originally Posted by [XC] Lead Head View Post
What does it matter? It's still a nearly 12 year old operating system. Look at Apple, they stop supporting OS-X versions after about 4 years. Ubuntu only offers 5 years of support on their LTS releases. Technology moves too fast to keep supporting ancient software.

Trying to support legacy products on legacy operating systems just wastes resources that could otherwise be put towards improving drivers for the latest and greatest.
again, we are talking about Xp and not something else, XP had an unusually long life span for many reasons, that's true... but official MS support is still going on, most (or many) hardware manufactures are still offering support for XP, and a portion of AMD cards users are still using XP, so... XP still have clearly a significant number of users, by 2006 I think 98 had a lot less relevance than XP have now