Most users are obviously reluctant to upgrade from the old but still pretty functional OS. Several years back most industry watchers used to point at the Vista shortcomings as the explanation, but now that Windows 7 fixed almost all of them it’s obvious that the problem is a good portion of users finds XP good enough and an update simply isn’t worth the extra dollar.
That way everyone will be able to stick with XP for as long as they want, until they are ready to switch to Windows 7 or Windows 17 – whatever the current version is in 2020.
