Microsoft needs to jettison more legacy so they can move faster. Why? For important business software, stability and longevity are good things. From a commerc

Microsoft needs to jettison more legacy so they can move faster. Why? For important business software, stability and longevity are good things. From a commercial point of view, I know my businesses would have happily paid Microsoft for a version of Windows 7 that continued to get updates for security and for compatibility with new hardware but otherwise stayed much the same. Likewise, we'd pay for ongoing support of key business software like Office (and other big name products from other big name brands) if that were available. Given genuinely beneficial improvements, we'd pay for genuine upgrades as well, on a timetable of our choosing. However, we have no interest in upgrade treadmills for anything that matters, whether they are pushed via subscription plans or via incompatibility. So, moving faster in this case is directly costing Microsoft revenues. While my own anecdotal experience is only that, I have to think we're not the only small businesses making the sorts of decisions we're making for the reasons that we're making them.