I'm finding it a little worry recently with the number of companies all focused upon making Microsofts latest version of windows overly appealing via indirect m

I'm finding it a little worry recently with the number of companies all focused upon making Microsofts latest version of windows overly appealing via indirect means. What with intel and AMD both releasing chipsets that will only support windows 8 and now a direct blow to winXP users then the preasure for not overly IT aware users to upgrade to windows 8 becomes more and more a forced upgrade down the line. Yes there are alternatives but for many users then they will be very limited in those options and with new hardware limiting there choices even further they will be of the mindset of having no alternative choice. What with microsoft pushing out windows 8 in a vain to avoid the backlash they got from Vista (still prefer that over 7 personaly) becasue they never adopted it internaly when they expected others too. But I'm wondering how many of these limited choice impacts (IE versions, new hardware chipsets) are induced via microsofts influence. That said I can appreciete how versions of IE have there quirks and changes making catering for various versions a utter nightmare, but when users of XP have little choice then to upgrade there OS or install a non microsoft browser then for many users they will end up replacing there entire computer instead of installing chrome, and thats becasue they don't fully know what there doing. Anybody reading here will be a install chrome or firefox brigade but not all users are at our level, some don't even understand binary and it is those that will feel the presure.