Yeah, alot of people seem to have that opinion. That's cool with me, but it simply isn't true. It is strange to me how we ALL have some beliefs that aren't based on good research and facts (Excluding religious and philosophical beliefs which cannot be proven nor disproven through experimentation). Perhaps I'm biased, as I have yet to have any serious problems with Windows XP. If installed/configured correctly, XP is a much more secure AND MUCH more stable OS than the previous versions of Windows. This isn't my opinion, this is pretty much fact. Of course there are some systems that XP doesn't work well on, but those systems probably shouldn't be running XP to begin with...due to out dated hardware and low resources such as RAM.
Some people just like to hang on to the past...which is more familiar territory.
My comment from before was mostly in reference to you saying that no one codes viruses for 98 anymore. Which isn't true at all. Sorry for any misunderstandings.