“I can’t even remember the last time I used XP, people need to catch up and stop whining.”
The only people using that are lazy businesses, people using easily obtained pirated copies, and folks that should know better but think they are really proving a point by continued use. The “It ain’t broke” brigade.
Or folks whose businesses run very expensive software that requires it.
Ya. When you have 50 computers and requiring a full OS upgrade I can see why business are not eager to make the leap. OS upgrades are not fun — I have done a few — upgrade the OS (at least an hour, maybe two), reinstall the apps, cross your fingers and hope that the drivers exist for your hardware, etc. etc.
But now they won’t have a choice.
Too bad MS won’t sell the source to a third party for continued support. We’d be willing to pay a fee for monthly support.
Wrong. There are many businesses who have highly expensive hardware (gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, CNC mills, and many other categories)that cost hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars for which the computer serves as the control box. Quite often, the control SOFTWARE for such expensive equipment has not been re-written to run under later OS's, and likely never will be. You can actually buy new hardware specifically designed to run older OS's, so that the expensive legacy hardware can be kept operational.