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by ocdtrekkie 3274 days ago
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.

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