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.
Why am I supposed to change just for Microsoft’s sake? There is little TV reception is this area thanks to the government but I have several old TV sets that do not need regular updates software replaced or patched. My old trucks are fun because I still can work on them not like windows 8 when it gets screwed up. Making things different does not make them better. Windows 8 is kinda like putting the steering wheel and gearshift of a car in the trunk! Some one would think it is really neat.
difference is an xp machine may still work just fine for what someone needs to do. ‘79 set won’t be useful as no tv signals are being broadcast for them to pick up.
whynget on someone for being upset a company destroys a product people liked, and ignored their pleas’not to change it. msquish has dropped a number of crap os’s in their hstory so it’s a chronic issue with them. it also affects shareholders’ bottom lines by being massively pig-headed and stupid.