If XP is the system that won't die, what about W2000?
When XP came out, many financial institutions and others who had concerns about security flatly refused to contemplate installing XP because if its call-home features and the collection of data relating to the machine. Having found that they really do not need to keep spending money on new operating systems, they have stuck with it. Our own company runs W2000 on most of its non-Linux desktops even now. One reason for that is that it (mostly) works.
But MS, as it was first with Win95 and Win98 intend to leave us orphaned and at the mercy of hackers because we don't want or need their newer software.
The refusal to put IE7 or 8 onto Win2000 has caused no hassle: we deploy Firefox everywhere anyway. But there will no doubt come a time when IE6 does not access the MS website, leaving our Win2000 users out in the cold.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
