The multi-national where I work is XP.
Maybe they have extended licensing because of EU rules.
I remember P&G finally switched to Win 95 two years after its introduction.
I thought Microsoft agreed to extend support for XP until sometime in 2014?
Per MS website: support ends April 8,2014.
Personally I will likely have XP on offline systems dedicated for control purposes for years to come as some software is not available in updated versions. This is likely to be true for other niche users choosing or forced by economics to retain older but functional equipment.
At work one application still runs on NT,and continues to do what it did when new.The 5-figure price of a replacement program to do the same job on newer OS is not in the budget.
They extended consumer support, sure. They understand there’s a larger acceptance of XP over the newer techs, esp. on older hardware.
From an enterprise agreement perspective and licensing in the enterprise, Microsoft won’t offer licensing for true-ups or support on XP anymore.