I hadn’t realized this until Rob Weir pointed it out, but Windows XP moves to the “extended support” phase of it’s life cycle (also Office 2003) after today. So for most consumers, that means XP is now dead – though still more popular than Vista1{#footlink1:1239695774478.footnote}.

I have a lot of demo VMs set up with XP and I really don’t want to migrate them to Vista (let alone pay for that), but a demo on Linux just isn’t going to cut it with clients who use Windows exclusively. Demoing on OS X works but is too hard to control the environment since it can’t be a virtual machine. I do a lot of webinars so it’s really useful to have the VM set to 1024×768 without having to actually resize the screen down and unplug the second monitor.

1 – Just to be clear, I’m not saying Ephox is going to stop support for XP. ↩