In my experience, it wasn't that people wanted to keep XP forever, it was that Vista was worse. When 7 arrived, the number of XP holdouts fell quickly. The tro

In my experience, it wasn't that people wanted to keep XP forever, it was that Vista was worse. When 7 arrived, the number of XP holdouts fell quickly. The trouble with 7 in that situation is that either 8.1 or 10 needed to be the next good version, but they weren't. Do you know anyone who actually wants their system to change its UI every six months? Or to install updates whether they agree with them or not, even though those updates can have serious consequences if they go wrong and cause inconvenience even if they work? Or who likes having their own computer phoning home without their consent? Or having ads inserted into their daily user experience? If Microsoft was producing an operating system people actually wanted, they wouldn't need to push dodgy updates to get people to use it.