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I agree the fault lies partly with hardware driver and software writers and the companies that employ them not keeping up with technology but, the fact is, it still happens. I delayed upgrading from XP to Win 7 for several years because I would have had to replace a perfectly good printer and a POS scanner that otherwise still worked satisfactorily. I didn't upgrade until after I replaced both of them (the scanner because it was a POS and printer, even though it still worked fine, because I eventually couldn't get unexpired toner cartridges anymore). Just because something is older doesn't mean it still can't be usable.
I also fault MS to a degree for not taking more effort to make a new OS more backwards compatible with older software and hardware. It's not always cost effective, or even possible, to upgrade. When I still worked for corporate America, I saw three carousel storage systems in my department worth over a million dollars get scrapped because the company upgraded to XP and they couldn't upgrade the operating software to work with XP. Our machine shop had to take their CNC plasma cutter offline and run isolated from the intranet to avoid having to scrap it.
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