I think that Microsoft made a great example of long term support, but I have to agree with the big red "Honestly, it's time for a change" at the top of the page. It's a twelve year old product, I'm honestly amazed to find any users left. Yeah, many businesses may be using XP, which sadly includes almost ATM in the US, but this end of support has been coming for a long, long time and upgrading to newer, likely better software is something that needs to be done.<p>Additionally, am I the only person who has no major problems with Windows 8.1? Yeah, Metro isn't great on my non-touchscreen monitor but I'm not going to avoid using it because I don't like the UI. (In all fairness, I only run it on a gaming PC and my school/work machine runs OS X...) I'd love to see more lower and middle end options that run Linux, but until then I think ending support for XP is actually a good thing. You can't be hung up on old technology forever.