Ah, but since they DO have that monopoly, they can easily make the executive decision to NOT keep maintaining.Indeed, but you'd think with all that money pouring in, with them having a monopoly on the market and ever expanding, they'd have enough money and resources to keep maintaining it!
People will keep giving them their money anyway and they have to spend less; therefore profits go up.
Is it morally the 'right' thing to do? ABSO-BLOODY-LUTELY NOT! But the world runs on that fake morality of money and power.
I'm still on Windows 7 and perfectly happy to stick with that pretty much forever.And why I was trying to (unsuccessfully) persuade people *not* to free-upgrade to Windows 10.
Therefore I'm NOT AT ALL happy that apparently next year I have to switch over after all.
Like I've got nothing better to do than to get all my buttons moved around and my performance brought down.
All for the 'bonus' of getting all sorts of features I don't remotely care about while having to pay extra for it.
Nope, there's no win in there for me at all.
Oh... hey... remember that day we were all being over-the-top POSITIVE in another thread?
Maybe we should try that again instead.