this article isn&#x27;t really about microsoft breaking their policy of &#x27;support everything from all time&#x27;, but that policy is breaking and it&#x27;s going to get worse. Drivers (especially printer drivers) are the first straw, followed by lots of old industrial control programs written for XP.<p>Cross your fingers that businesses who need to plan 10 years out will learn this lesson well and remember that the best way to do long support is shared source application code (even if behind an NDA) on open source platforms.