Read the last four words......they are "in a virtual machine".
What I posted said zip about keeping the full/original OS's, it was completely about versions designed to run specifically in a VM. It could be that the "old OS" would ONLY run in a very specific VM, tailored for that purpose.
They’d still need patches and support. Things break. The things that run in VMs ARE full/ original OSes, really in most VM environments you can point them at a disk and install them. Rewriting dead OSes that they don’t want to support anymore as VM onlyware would be a waste of time.
I don’t understand the hugh and cry on this. It’s a 13 OS, we’ve known for years the EOL was coming, everybody who wanted to keep using it had plenty of time to get prepped. People didn’t freak out when 3.1 got EOLed, nobody cared when it was 95’s turn, or 98. Why is XP’s death this great tragedy? You’ve had time to deal with this day, nobody’s fault but your if you didn’t.