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They likely only extended support in the fear another company snaps up their corporate customers. There are plenty of alternative supported distros that would w
by pippy 13y ago
They likely only extended support in the fear another company snaps up their corporate customers. There are plenty of alternative supported distros that would work on older hardware, different methodologies (IE BYOD), or virtualization strategies that could cause a domino effect in corporate environments in which they become less dependant on MS products.
- huxley 13y agoI wonder how many these XP users are customers in any sense that involves money, it appears (from the outside) to be a worry about losing theoretical marketshare.
- jlgaddis 13y agoHeh, the machines still running XP in corporations are likely doing so because of the applications. If they were going to move to Linux, they'd just upgrade to Windows {7|8}.