Half of that is true. But with XP, we didnt nearly have the horrible driver support of Vista and during the time of XP, people thought it was ridiculous to have 256mb of ram to run the OS and play games
Microsoft doesnt really have a choice. Most medium-large businesses are not going to switch since they recently started running XP in the last 3-4 years, and most home user have just gotten used to XP in the last 3-4 years.
They screwed themselves for taking too long with Vista
