The Sony W was offered with XP at Fry's recently.

Here in Asia, the XP netbooks disappeared off the shelf and reappeared as, in most cases, W7 Starter. New is always seen as better. The change is not whether XP or W7 is better, though, but not to allow Linux to make inroads.

If I could buy official copies of XP, I'd buy a few. Since that's not possible and the older application software suitable for netbooks is not available either, I'm planning on moving on to W7 soon enough, second or third quarter of this year. Since I could buy copies of W7 Pro now for $30 as a student, I bought a few.

I like XP enough to keep it on my desktop and portable right now especially since no more cash outlay is required. If I have to replace one or the other computer with a model with W7, I'll put W7 on both. Linux is probably not an option for me so this thread about XP netbooks is good.

The same for business. A 100 station business running XP, without a need to change hardware or applications, probably would not change the XP OS to W7. That would be an unnecessary expense.