[Southack]

"But they won't run on anything else, either. They should stick with 98, until they re-write it for something more modern, like they had to do when 2000/XP first came out."

Companies don't want to spend new money to rewrite software that already works...especially just to enable running it on some new OS.

Companies want the old software to run on newer, faster hardware.

That's a large market demand. MicroSoft is shooting itself by creating that demand on the one hand, and not filling it on the other.

Eventually, someone will fill that market need...that's the invisible hand of capitalism.

[Golden Eagle]

Once again this is just a typical evolutionary cycle of Microsoft products. In fact they’re experiencing record sales and revenue because none of their competitors have a better solution to the problem you’re describing.