DirectX 11 For Windows Vista Released

[carnageX]

Good luck finding drivers for XP in a while; it's losing support within the next few years. Not to mention the fact that XP still is full of security holes and only getting worse (seen swiss cheese? Worse than that; you can only patch it up so much).

 

[Apokalipse]

Good luck finding drivers for XP in a while; it's losing support within the next few years. Not to mention the fact that XP still is full of security holes and only getting worse (seen swiss cheese? Worse than that; you can only patch it up so much).

If you have it behind a firewalled router, and you use the right software, that won't really matter.

Also, XP will get driver support as long as people still use it. Not just as long as Microsoft provides updates.
Windows 98 and 2000 got driver updates for a while after Microsoft decided not to provide updates for them. And they weren't as popular as XP.

 

[carnageX]

Even when people wanted to downgrade from Vista to XP on newer machines, it was hard to find drivers for a lot of stuff because companies stopped making drivers for XP.

 

[Apokalipse]

Even when people wanted to downgrade from Vista to XP on newer machines, it was hard to find drivers for a lot of stuff because companies stopped making drivers for XP.

Not really. Pretty much every laptop still has drivers available for XP.
If not from the manufacturer of the laptop, usually the manufacturer of the individual component itself will.

It's only more convenient and easier when everything comes preinstalled.