Lets put things into proportion what has 98 to offer which xp cant xp has beautiful looks some kewl trendy features. But lets get to point user friendly , easy to improvise and yes all the softwares work well with it . Xp has some major problems working with softwares for example my kazaa shows an illegal error with windows 98 so I just minimize the illegal error pop up and continue with windows 98 and kazaa but xp automatically shuts it down so no chances of using kazaa. Then so many pirated softwares work easily with windows 98, but xp has all the problems thus windows 98 is the most useful , easy to use and common software for India atleast .