If Microsoft was smart they would release a super-fixed, super-SECURE, super ...whatever... version of the exact same XP they sold a decade ago. Sell it to oldsters like me. Tons and tons of them.
Sell the latest gadgety kid’s thing to the kids.
Microsoft CAN have two products at once, I believe.
If only they would!
I use XP and my wife uses Win 7.
I do like Win7 some, but XP is just a lot slicker, logical, faster, etc, etc to me for what I use a computer for.
That’s what 7 *is*.
Microsoft has never been a consumer focused company. Rather than try making two decent OS one for ones like you and I who would purchase such an OS they focus on teen-30 something buyers. They also ignore businesses and health care providers who have substancial XP programs running and a change over would be disruptive and very costly in business loss. They I imagine would also pay to keep XP.
XP is a great system and I believe re-licensing would mean huge profits from basic users. But MS is a here it is you'll like our crappy new product or else. MS has never admitted they made a mistake in their OS designs.