I think M$ are dropping themselves in it big time by stopping support for XP.
After April 8 millions of people will continue to use XP, many oblivious to the potential risks. Many of these machines will end up having security comprimises and rightly or wrongly people will blame Micro$oft.
Millions of others will now rush out and buy a new machine, retailers, in order to cash in, will bump up the prices and people will blame Micro$oft.
Those new machines, if people stick with Windows, will come with Windows #8, or to put it more accurately number two because a lot of people think its crap. Thats right, you guessed it, millions of people will blame micro$oft.
They are losing a LOT of customer goodwill by doing this. Many people are happy with XP because they dont need a powerful gaming platform or a thousand useless apps or want all this social media connectivity crap or cloud computing BS.
Last edited by Private jet; 22nd March 2014 at 15:41.