They tried to end support for NT4, but got hammered for it. They ended up supporting it for more then a year longer then they wanted to.
Hmmmm....
Open Office...Check
Firefox...Check
Thunderbird...Check
Linux...Comming soon
My personal pet peeve is that Windoze seems to degrade with time, no matter HOW much security patches, anti-spyware etc. etc. you do or run - it just doesn't make any difference. Maybe some server running in the closet doesn't suffer from this malady but a basic Windoze machine is going to get slower and slower and slower until it finally grinds to a halt. I don't know if this is registry bloat, or swapfile fragmentation, or the heartbreak of psoriasis but it just seems to be a universal law of the universe of computing. If Windoze doesn't fix this issue they are digging their own grave eventually.
I personally wonder how many new computers have been purchased because the old one "gave out" when, in fact, the hardware as perfectly fine but it was really Windoze that "gave out"?