After purchasing three Dell XP systems c. early 2007, I haven't bought any new systems since. The boxes are now upgraded to Windows 7, Windows 8, and SUSE Linux, in various combinations of dual boot and/or virtualization. Especially for virtualization, I can certainly make good use of newer, faster, more capacious systems -- but not if they are Windows 8. Windows 8's a clunker, and an important reason why I haven't purchased any new systems lately.
I have successfully run, more or less, the JT ACW games under Linux Wine, but with each new Wine version, it's hit or miss. I expect that, if nothing else, Linux Wine will be maintained going forward. So between Microsoft continuing to provide backward compatibility, virtualization, and Windows emulators (like Wine), we should still be able to run these games one way or the other "forever".
If Windows 9 indeed has the rumored virtual desktops feature, yes, it is something I "need". Virtual desktops -- don't do computing without it!
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