Microsoft FAIL, Microsoft to reverse course on Windows 8

[krispos42]

70. It seems that Microsoft failed to realize the following:

That, when the average PC was capable of playing video without a problem and the Windows version was stable, people stopped seeing the need to upgrade so often because they didn't see the need to spend the money, deal with the hassle of transferring files (or entire hard drives) to a new desktop, reinstall all their programs (which you may or may not have the discs for, and which may or may not work on the new OS), and learn a new system for no effective increase in performance.

And if you replace your C-drive with a new one every few years (cloning the old one), then you'll almost certainly never face having to buy a new PC because of hard drive failure and data loss. I'm on my 3rd C-drive; only 2 months ago did the original
C-drive finally toast.

I'm on a 9-year-old PC with XP, SP3.