[passivate]

>Of course many users will scream because things are changing but honestly if they want to move forward they have to ignore them.

Sorry, I completely disagree. An OS should be a dependable stable platform. The Apps are what drive productivity, and I want to keep the software that I purchased running for as long as I can. The vendors probably would love to sell you the newer version that works on OS version N+1. I don't want to keep re-buying software just because the OS vendor deprecated a library/framework. That's just my view.

I've told this story before of how we installed an XP app (i.e binary was created ~15-20 years ago) on W10 and it just worked w/o any fuss. In biotech you have a lot of very very expensive commercial software and you can't just treat the OS as the 'flavor of the month' and not care about backwards compatibility. There are many industries that are the same. We think of Autodesk as this giant company, but (correct me if I am mis-remembering) some dude analyzed their financial statements and concluded they only have like 20-30,000 paying users, but at $4,000 a pop, it adds up. If I purchased their product for $4,000 the last thing I want is some OS vendor to follow some UI fad and render my application incompatible.