Thank-you MasterChief, I was going to state that XP can take a screen shot. I just could not find if ME could. And 98 did not have, from what I can tell the ability to take a screen shot.
I always love the line of reasoning that it cost money to keep an OS going. (Don't tell Linux that shhh.) Okay, there are approximately 500 million computers running XP. Let us cut that in half because of those "bad" copies. So we now have 250 million.
Many people do pay for a security system. (Point to keep in mind) If you were to charge One Dollar a month to keep the patches going for XP, that would be 12 times 250 million which (I hope I did my math correctly) 3 Billion Dollars. That would not be enough to keep it going? Gates, the world's richest man at 76 billion, would he sneeze at bringing in 4% a year of his total worth? Um I know I would not.
Even though you HG, do not understand how others can use the dinosaur, there are those that can not understand how you use Eight. Many do not need the latest technology to run their business nor live their lives.