For me, XP will never die. If you have an old computer lying in your house, with 512MB or 1GB of RAM and an slow CPU, Windows 7/Vista/8/8.1 is way too much. I'm not saying that W7 will not run on it, but it will take almost all RAM memory. For me, a good Operating System is the one that is lightweight, fast and reliable. XP is all that. If I ever see another Windows version that run as fast as XP on these old PCs, I will leave XP. But MS wants to make everyone buy a new PC. And I really don't care if they end the support of XP. Windows 2000, 98SE, etc are all OS that are in the same situation, but are still used by a lot of people with old hardware. At least, we have still hope that ReactOS will replace XP someday...