Originally Posted by
le Pingouin
MG32, seriously, why would MS care?
Because the global infrastructure is totally reliant on computers these days, and it only takes one exploitable, unpatched and unpatchable XP bug to give the world a really bad day?
'Oh, it's not our fault, we warned you,' doesn't go down too well after something like that.
I believe Microsoft already extended support once because hardly anyone wanted to move away from XP. I won't be at all surprised if they have to extend it again, at least for major security fixes.
It's not like they haven't had however many years warning to plan a transition.
And smaller companies love spending money to replace computers that still do everything they need.