As said previously, Vista seems to be the modern Windows Me. one article I found funny:
"Upgrading from Vista to XP"
http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/ar...indows-xp.aspx
anyway, the "after vista" OS is supposed to arrive in about 2.5 years... there's a good chance XP does quite well until there.. even if most will have to move to a 64bit version