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Originally Posted by Neil

Come to think of it they tried a bit of this with Vista but now people moan that their old hardware and software is no longer compatible with Vista - why should it be you just bought something new?

Precisely the point. Why should we have to buy the something new? Why can't we carry on using our old familiar something which works with all our existing software? I have programs which I do not wish to have to replace just because Microsoft isn't going to support XP any more.