Absolutely not. Backwards compatibility and the OS hooks needed to maintain that are a contributing factor for around 75% of the security issues and bugs in Windows. This is unlikely to change because Microsoft is too much of a wimp to force users and developers to move forward. The closest Microsoft has ever come was the dropping of 16-bit support when Windows fully switched to 64-bit. Meanwhile, Apple has actually done this exact thing three times (68k - PPC, PPC-Intel, Intel-Apple Silicon), and has gained market share since the M series first launched. There are several problems with running older software perpetually:
- Reliance on third-party extensions and frameworks that are deprecated
- Lack of updates resulting in security vulnerabilities
- Incompatibility with newer versions of Windows
- Inability to support in-app features of current versions of the same apps.
- Lack of support from the publisher due to the age of the software in question.
