“When a greedy company has to change its product regularly to sell new stuff and say we will under no circumstances help with the old stuff because we want to make money on a new one, it is time to step back and look for something else.”
What else are you going to find that is any different? I guarantee if you called Apple looking for security updates for Mac OS 7 they would laugh at you.
Have a question for you...
Do you still get help on your 1979 Television set? Or did you go out an buy a newer version of what is called a television set today?
Software, just like every thing else in this god given world, after a time becomes obsolete. The effective cost to keep supporting a 1979 television set is just too much so the television company probably dropped support on it.
Microsoft does the same thing as every other software company does, it takes a look at the usedful service life and determines a kill date for support. XP has served its useful service life and Microsoft now puts its efforts and monies into servicing and supporting a newer product.
Microsoft is not greedy in this regards people are resilient to change. The OS changes are not so much driven by software companies more so by the changes in newer hardware technologies. I don’t hear too many complaints when Apple changes its OS. Sometimes a business is a hit or miss. However you never really know until you put the product on the market and get feedback from that. Study groups are supposed to be a microcosm of that feedback but in the end it all boils down to can you make money off it. If you can you got a good product, if not its time to go back to the drawing board.
I am sure you will find support for a VIC 20 or Commodore 64 from the companies that designed and mass produced them.
Technological change is theoretically supposed to be good.
yeah imagine the nerve of a company not wanting to support a product 14 years old and built on an obsolete architecture.