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Most places I know of running WinXP are completely cut off from Internet, using personal media like pendrives is prohibited and the identity of a user is confirmed with physical "PKI card" or something.

They will use their XP's long after the universe dies, I think.

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"Most"? Really? Most of the XP machines I know of are being used like any normal desktop machine: email, browsing, office, thumb drives, etc.

I know things are different with industrial machine control, they might be different at my doctor's office, and so forth. But I don't think those special situations add up to "most". Not yet.

Most of the 4 places I know of, yes :D

And the dentist office is one of them, actually. Anyway, I may be wrong about this right now, but as you note, in a few years, when the support dies and nothing works on XP any longer it will still thrive in environments I describe.

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