XP is toast. It was good, but it was made redundant by its owner and all its hardware conspirators and I think I took it as far as it could be taken without being supported.
When I have time one day I have to give Linux a shot. I've done some basic tutorials, but realize it will take a very real learning curve which can only come through lots of experience. At most I'd also like to learn how to beat Microsoft at its game. To understand enough about updates. Also, I really didn't need 1/20th of that Monster MS Office 2013 that I downloaded last night. All I really needed were some basic Word and Excel. Maybe also PowerPoint. I wasn't warned by Microsoft what was coming. There should be a law that tells people like Microsoft that if they exceed X Gigabytes download, that they have to warn the person who is downloading it. Also give it the option to delay the download or interrupt the download as Microsoft more or less completely stopped me from getting around last night, and again this morning, while it was taking my computer over.