It is bad press for them.
Grandma and Grandpa and computer illiterate aunts and uncles and so on... are being told that they need to buy a new computer or else. Expensive for most. They won’t understand.
MS made billions off of their products and the loyal customers who followed them and a large percentage are still running XP.
Count me as one of them - but I did switch my browser to FireFox.
I too am one of them still using XP one machine, the one I am using now as I type. I downloaded the fix today too. I have two other machines running Windows 7, but am slow to get used to it, having run XP for so many years. Windows 7 does not have the ‘feel’ of XP and many things seem different.
After I transfer everything from this machine to one of the newer ones, including all my Outlook files, I will be using one of the ‘7’ machines.
Btw, I need help to know how to transfer the Outlook files. I would welcome suggestions on the know how. These files are in Office 2007 and I am going to Office 2010 on the newer machine. I could upgrade this to 2010 if it would make the transfer easier.
Sure they’ll understand. Explain that it’s like having an old car that you can’t get parts, oil, battery, etc for: run it as long as you can, but when it breaks ain’t nobody interested in fixing it.