Why not just stop supporting it? If it's time to move on, it's time to move on for everyone. Corporations, enterprises, everyone. If they can stop supporting an OS, they can stop supporting a browser.

I suppose this redefines 'overkill', get it?

While there are quite a few free disk imaging tools (two of which are already mentioned), it seems the free versions or alternatives never seem to have incremental imaging. Any tips regarding free disk imaging software that performs incremental backups would be much appreciated

Fujitsu is talking to itself now?

You may want to check out Nimblex. It is a very light Linux, and the website allows you to customize it with things that you will or won't need, essentially cropping it down to be as small as you would like. I've never tried bringing it all the way down to under 256mb, but you can get it down to around 200mb without losing much functionality (the basics such as browser and office applications are still there at that size). After customizing your build, an iso download is available for you for 24 hours (so dialup may be an issue), which you burn as a bootable disc, then boot from the cd. When you run it, there are various options such as running it from RAM, installing to the hard drive, running it from the CD etc. If your machine supports booting from USB devices, and if you want to keep this as cheap as possible, I recommend buying a cheap USB flash drive and setting up the OS on that, since CDs are more prone to damage and the odds are you will eventually have a need for your CD drive while you are running the OS (or you could just install on the hard drive).

Just something to keep in mind: most Linux distros are striving for forward compatibility, trying to support newer hardware (such as newer wireless network cards and graphics chips), so while the odds are you won't have any problems with your machine, you may find that some of your hardware isn't supported in any given distro, so you may have to hunt for drivers for a while.

I also recommend Vista Start Menu. While there is a paid version, the free version has most of the features and is quite powerful in extending the start button/vista orb menu. It doesn't integrate with the search field as much as this, but for people looking for a more expansive start menu, it may fit the bill better:

http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html

For your 3 minuts of life back, here's my translation:

1.2 Kilograms of weight.

LED backlit 10" screen.

ULV CPU.

Release end of May.

80gb HDD

1gb RAM

XP Home

Intel Atom CPU.

Card Reader.

3 USB ports.

3 Cell battery standard, with about 2.5 hour uptime. 6 cell expected to provide 5 hours.

WiFi

Nothing much else really...

Yeah but there's porn.

Cue the OS fanboys/haters in 3...2...

Imagine the look on the face of the cop when this guy gets pulled over watching porn. LCD cleaner in the glovebox, and no that is not 'printer paper'.

I love mobile devices, but what I find really lacking is a middle point: Too many smaller mobiles are trying to give full computer experiences (HTC Shift trying to run Vista with a crippled WM6 on the side, not to mention everyone seems to want to run Vista for some reason), While the larger end of the mobile market doesn't have an OS more powerful than Windows Mobile to lean on to (HTC Advantage is a fantastic device crippled by the limitations of WM6). If manufacturers had an OS (Lets call it Windows Portable for now) that combined the relative simplicity of a handheld OS (there's a lot to learn from Linux based devices here) with a good compromise from the power of full blown PC OSs (I would love a sleek interface like vista and good mobile office and multimedia capabilities like those in a full OS like Vista but who needs advanced disk/network/user/hardware management on a pocketable device...) then I think we'd be seeing more innovative designs that aren't restricted by too little hardware trying to get too much software going (HTC Shift again), or fantastic hardware without the software to make use of it (HTC Advantage again). Not to mention the fact that it's time MS wakes up: a taskbar is great for organizing things on a larger screen, but on a small portable, such an element would only be any use if used for displaying current/background information as opposed to being used as a method of accessing the software/hardware.