[bad_user]

     As for Windows XP support, why would Microsoft
     add in support for an OS they don't really support 
     any more?

Because Windows XP is stable, it works and a lot of companies and people are still using it.

If anything, Microsoft is to be blamed for not providing a compelling reason to upgrade. Windows Vista was awful, while Windows 7 is just a re-branded Vista with a little more polish applied. Which is why at home I still have Windows XP on my desktop.

     It has been 11 years, well almost 12

Windows 7 was released at the end of 2009, while XP was released in Aug 2001. That's 8 years in which people had no real upgrade option. Can you really blame them if they are a little conservative?

     the fact people want to support the outdated OS is like asking 
     Google to start supporting Internet Explorer 6 again

That's not a fair comparison, as downloading Firefox/Chrome is painless, is free, doesn't require a hardware upgrade, normal people can do it by themselves and they don't risk losing their data ... saying that upgrading Windows is painful would be an understatement.

[zooey]

That's wrong. 7 is really good. Comparing it to vista or xp shows you don't know what you are talking about.

[bad_user]

Name 3 differences between Vista and XP that don't involve minor UI tweaks.

[avens19]

Show me the person that's still running 2001 hardware with XP

[PidGin128]

yo. (of course, it did take two days to post...)