Ummm...you can still use 7 if you want to. Or use 8 or 8.1 and do things with it to revert back to 7. That's not an excuse WHATSOEVER.
Ridiculous.
People should be forced to buy operating systems that have
your stamp of approval?
Believe it or not, some people don't like:
- Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
The fact that they are installing XP indicates that they have install discs and product keys (legitimate or otherwise).
And you can say developers should write code for relevant platforms, but you can just say that. In reality, this is basically an impossibility. Microsoft can't develop IE 9/10/11 or xp because of the NT 5 kernel limitations and the way xp handles networking is so archaic compared to Windows vista even.
That was a decision MS made to suit itself.
MS developed IE9 and made sure it wouldn't work on XP to try to force people to upgrade to Windows 7.
Google, Mozilla, Opera, etc. are able to create browsers that run on XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
Strange that MS is incapable of doing it (they wrote the OS).
They can't get Office 2013 easily able to be used on xp because of no SkyDrive support (cloud storage wasn't a thing in 2001) in system, and the way the OS handles program installations is just different than NT 6-6.2 kernel versions.
That was another decision MS made to suit itself.
Why does anyone need SkyDrive (OneDrive) to write Word documents or create Excel spreadsheets?
If it were that easy, it would have been done. But it's not that so cut and paste simple, that's why vista was made to address blatant security and certain performance flaws that STILL to this decade have barely been resolved or even yet to be patched. Obviously vista was a screw up, which is why they released Windows vista.1 and that fixed the main errors there.
The story I read stated that the reason we got Vista, instead of Longhorn, was that when MS demonstrated it to a "select group" of people, they "freaked out" and as a result, MS hastily rewrote the entire thing and released it as Vista.
Another story suggested that Intel insisted that MS lower Vista's stated "minimum system requirements" (to suit Intel's agenda).