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Originally Posted by GvilleBridge
Witness the reluctance of many (eg, corporations with thousands of workers at PCs) to leave Windows XP (or even 98) when they heard how bad Vista was.
At some point the Microsofts decide simply to stop supporting some past version(s). It's gruesome treatment of users but necessary for general sanity, including that of poky users.
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The reason that so many companies stayed with XP was the cost to move to Vista. Not just the cost of the licenses, but the cost of testing existing applications under Vista, the cost of modifying existing applications, and the cost of training.
Unlike the release of XP, Vista had no overwhelming advantage over the previous version (XP).
Microsoft is still supporting XP, some 11 years later. Which is far longer than the usual 3-5 years. In fact, Microsoft will have ended up supporting XP for 13 years when they finally cut off XP support in April 2014.
All in all, this is excellent support for a product that hasn't made any money for the company in years.