Plus, why are people so irksome in not upgrading to ever newer and more expensive operating systems like they're supposed to? Constantly forcing Microsoft to keep looking back over legacy code. It's ugly, dirty and scary back there, not like in candy XP land.
1. Legacy applications. In a 200,000+ user environment like ours, being irksome is a slightly safer route than upgrading needlessly.
2. Sticking with version -1 has traditionally been a good practice as far as MS server OSes are concerned. Let the upgrade-horny idiots work themselves through the worst initial bugs, and _then_ upgrade when the product (at least to some extent) has matured.
3. Microsoft have commited themselves to supporting the system. No one is forcing Microsoft to do anything.
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1. Legacy applications. In a 200,000+ user environment like ours, being irksome is a slightly safer route than upgrading needlessly.
2. Sticking with version -1 has traditionally been a good practice as far as MS server OSes are concerned. Let the upgrade-horny idiots work themselves through the worst initial bugs, and _then_ upgrade when the product (at least to some extent) has matured.
3. Microsoft have commited themselves to supporting the system. No one is forcing Microsoft to do anything.