I wonder if these numbers are similar in the US. Personally I find this alarming. I am not sure if the amount of additional maintainance is greater for newer versions of Microsoft. I waited to use Vista and bug surprise, I liked it. Well, I will put it this way... I haven't had an major issues with Vista (unlike 98, 2000, and XP). I acquired my copy through a new laptop purchase and no fuss so far. If I buy a new laptop or desktop soon, I am going to use Windows 7 if it's on there.
I guess we all will be stuck with XP for a little bit longer. In a few years I can stay I used XP for a decade. You don't get to say that much these days.
