Don't try Microsoft's FS 2004 on it! ;O)
Hmm.. there really are changes afoot at MS, the FS I referred to above for example; they used to release Flightsim, and then about a year later they'd update it to fix the bugs, then they'd announce a new one and so the (more recently) 2 year cycle would go along. However they have stopped doing the update, which means you got to upgrade to get bug fixes, or live with the bugs. I'm not sure how I feel about that proposition to be honest.
Further, they have made a really rather good (in my view) range of game controllers (sidewinder, which for the most part have been very well made and nicely designed, the software with them has been a tad variable from time to time). They also brand good mice and keyboards. (Well, I like the ones I have had so far, and I'm pretty picky!) However they have announced that the game controllers are to be discontinued sadly - I'll miss them myself.
So here we are with OE and for all we know IE being chopped (I wouldn't be all that surprised), and XP seemingly here for the very long run.
Sure looks like a shifting of longer term direction to me. Disaster management?
Take Care, Gnube {too thick for linux}