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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I wonder why they aren't offering free upgrades to WinXP users? Surely, once MS is committed to giving away free licenses (that they would prefer to be paid for) it doesn't matter whether it is from an unsupported OS, why not try to upgrade the whole Windows ecosystem at once? The other advantages (not having to provide support for old OSes is irrelevant in XP's case) apply here as well -- and XP users are the most likely segment of the Windows ecosystem to ditch for another platform.
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Perhaps they figure that if someone's still running XP, it's likely to be an ancient machine which might not run 10 smoothly. Said user would then proceed to blame the sluggishness on 10, which is unfair bad press for the new OS.