If you wrote applications that were heavily dependent on XP and couldn't either run on Windows 7 or easily be tweaked to run on it, this is your problem. That's

If you wrote applications that were heavily dependent on XP and couldn't either run on Windows 7 or easily be tweaked to run on it, this is your problem. That's bad programming. That's bad management. To expect MS to bail out global corporations who write crappy software is crazy. If you have software in 2014 that requires Windows XP and/or IE 6, you need to look at your life and look at your choices. There is so much bad IT management and procurement at large corporations, and that's the root cause of a lot of the XP consternation from certain companies.