I hit my throttle limit for the day so editing was the only way to reply to your other comment in a timely manner. Regarding your comment here, no offense, but

I hit my throttle limit for the day so editing was the only way to reply to your other comment in a timely manner. Regarding your comment here, no offense, but that sounds more of an issue with your country/society where you live being too wealthy, throw-away and consumerist, than anything else. So I don't see how this is Microsoft's fault if people landfill working stuff at the smallest inconvenience or passing of age just because they're bored of the working old stuff and always want the new shiny. Which is the point I was making initially: super-wealthy frivolous society problem. For example, I live in a rich EU country, and even here every PC no matter how old or new it it, has a taker coming by to pick it up, if you put it up online as a gift. There's plenty of people into retro computing here or tinkering with older stuff who'll find a use in their garage or basement as a hobby project or whatever. Every PC gets sold, nothing gets landfilled. Sure, eventually they'll all be landfilled like everything else, but that's inevitable given enough time and obsolescence, but definitely not the moment they don't run $LATEST_SW, that's just absurd. If some countries do that, then it's the problem of that country being frivolous, not Microsoft for not providing endless SW support on a 10 year OS. That's just not economically feasible given the $100 license fee, but you can still use that HW.