My boss had his second laptop hard drive failure this year. When talking to the software/hardware support people of the company, he was told that the stock of replacement laptop hard drives was very low. The reason: Windows XP is spinning the drives to death!
This is a company that should have (conservative estimate) 15,000 to 25,000 laptops in service, nationwide in the USA.
How long can a company afford to swap out bad laptop hard drives? Especially when using a 3rd party to make the switch. It's overnight shipping of the drives, then the 3rd party installation, then another shipping back to the company storehouses for refurbishing or whatever is done with the bad drives.
The economics of the hardware failures caused by Windows XP, if uncorrected by Microsoft, will have to cause a company to switch operating systems.
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