I don't know what you're responding to, but viewing your comment in isolation, I disagree. I work for a large hospital that has standardized on XP as the OS for

I don't know what you're responding to, but viewing your comment in isolation, I disagree. I work for a large hospital that has standardized on XP as the OS for desktop machines, and most of our server VMs are running Windows Server 2003. (Can't comment on what OS is hosting the VMs.) I don't have the freedom to upgrade my PC or the servers I deploy my code on, but that doesn't mean I should be stuck with an old version of PHP. No, I don't have a dire need. But almost no one has a dire need.