[farnulfo]

paradoxically we want longer lifetime for some products but not for IE 6, Windows XP, JDK 1 , name your product's support hell...

[ocdtrekkie]

Arguably, Windows XP had an incredibly long lifetime (12 years!) in terms of actual support/updates. The problem is getting people to leave after that lifetime is over.

If something is going to get updates for twelve years, there's no problem with people continuing to use it.

[dsfyu404ed]

XP is still used in all sorts of (theoretically) non-networked applications.

[marcosdumay]

Yes, we don't want long lifetimes on products that have externalities.