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If it's "perfectly serviceable" then why do they need to continue to support it?

• deleted 13y ago
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  • JonSkeptic 13y ago
    > in a few months time it might be too much of a risk to have an XP machine with internet access. It's been too much of a risk for several years now. If security is truly a deep concern of your, you wouldn't still be running XP.
  • Amezarak 13y ago
    So who are you going to buy that supports major consumer OS releases for more than 12 years? Ubuntu's LTS support is just three years. Apple's OS X support varies (I think it's current plus past two?) but is < 5 years. So who are you going with?
• Spooky23 13y ago
  Because it's not just a product, it's an ecosystem. Today, many consumers are buying iPads and Macs. Once they are gone, they aren't coming back.