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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
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.
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That is why minimum hardware requirements exist before you can install a retail purchased copy of the OS...
Any bad press would exist if they were allowed to install retail copies of Win10 on PCs without the minimum specs.
And anyway, Win8 started a trend of getting the specs requirements back under control, a machine still running XP is probably a
decent machine running XP, which will run Win8-10 if not Win7.
Of course, that is a random guess.