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You need to read better your own quotes, end of extended support for XP is April 8, 2014
You also forgot about gamers. Gamers don't like being told that games from 2004 can't run on their computer, either.
No, Microsoft is still sending out security fixes too.
...but don't you wish that you got even 1% of Symantec's revenue from sales to Apple users?
The injection of Rosetta into this thread came from here; the suggestion that continuing to use Snow Leopard over Lion was not using the most up-to-date OS:
So, a couple of Snow Leopard users brought up the cost of their updating their software for Lion:
For the sake of it? The cost for me to upgrade would be in the thousands of dollars, entirely in software. I have several software packages that all work just fine, only they are "old" PowerPC code, and, as Apple chose to no longer support Rosetta in Lion, I would suddenly need to upgrade or find replacements for all of them. The cost for doing that makes Lion really easy to resist.
Hey, if you want to send about $2500 my way so I can upgrade all of my software, I'll gladly spring for the $29 for Lion and install it...
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Worse yet, are those users who must upgrade to Lion (for iCloud or newer CPU's that come with Lion installed and cannot be usefully downgraded to Snow Leopard) and perhaps have legacy hardware that is irreplaceable and will never have its software upgraded at any cost.
For those who must use Lion and are unable or unwilling to upgrade their PPC software, I have compiled a step by step instruction set for installing Snow Leopard into Parallels 7 in Lion. I have received some positive feedback from many users who can use a virtualization solution:
Installing Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) into Parallels 7 in Lion
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Wow, that's awesome! As I was ranting about Rosetta I started wondering if it would actually work in a virtualized environment or not. Clearly it can...
That being said, you certainly can't fault Apple too much for pulling the plug on Rosetta at this point. It was a technology for running binaries compiled for 32-bit PPC processors on IA-32 platforms that was licensed from a company that has since been absorbed by IBM. Keeping this going on 64-bit processors under a 64-bit kernel is obviously non-trivial and probably not worth the effort. If Apple can be faulted for anything, it's for not being more supportive of running client versions of Mac OS X as guest OS's under 3rd party virtualization tools.
I'd also like to point out that the other obvious choice for those who didn't manage to save their pennies for any new software during the past five years, is not to spend money on new hardware, Lion, or virtualization software, but to just keep running their legacy software and peripherals on the PPC hardware that it was designed for. I've got 4 PPC Macs collecting dust at the moment, three of which were given to me for free by folks who had upgraded. And heck, Flashback doesn't even affect PPC Macs.
Don't get me wrong, I do see situations where multi-thousand dollar business critical applications are updated at a glacial pace (notably point-of-sale systems.) But I also find it odd how unwilling some people are to invest in software, even when it's a tool that they require every day and is what actually makes their computers useful.