Garbage in, garbage out. I still run XP on my laptop. Still works as great as ever, and runs my legacy programs that later versions of Windows (and post-Rosetta Mac) won't. My desktop has Win 7 Pro, but even after more than six years of using it I still have a hard time finding stuff that was a piece of cake in XP. That being saidc, I'll take Win 7 over any of their later crap.

Microsoft's concept of "upgrading" is directly tied to upgrading their bottom line. But guess what? Now that the money's somewhere else, they've finally dumped Internet Explorer and now seem to be moving away from software entirely. This just in:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-annual-revenue-falls-but-quarterly-profit-beats-expectations-1468960330

"In its fiscal fourth quarter, sales of the Redmond, Wash., company’s Azure cloud computing service more than doubled, offsetting a decline in the segment that includes its flagship Windows operating system and its struggling mobile-phone business."