I guess that we could expect this. Microsoft has delayed the third Service Pack for Windows XP till the first half of 2008 because their first priority is Windows Vista. Wow 2008, that is like, ridiculous! It's like Mary Jo's puts it, probably just another strategy of Microsoft to convince people in upgrading to Windows Vista. You can achieve this by giving the impression that development (like security updates and bug fixes) for Windows XP has stopped and that you as a XP user are working with a dead Windows platform.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=54
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The .NET Aficionado