The elephant in the room here is that there isn’t a world of nasty people 
waiting to release exploits of 10.5 into the wild the moment Apple drops 
support for it. There IS however, for Windows XP. 

Bob


On Feb 26, 2014, at 08:46 , Lynn Fredricks <lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> 
wrote:

>> Dropping support for Windows XP would be fairly foolish 
>> (while dropping support for 10.5 and lower will just elicit a 
>> tired sigh);
> 
> I think it's a really bad idea to embed something as important as this is a
> thread about 10.5.
> 
> Check out this Computeworld article:
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245966/Users_postpone_ditch_XP_decis
> ion_as_Windows_8_runs_to_stay_in_place
> 
> This shows that XP accounted for 29.2% of desktop and notebook PCs as
> recently as last month. That's almost 5 x the number of all machines running
> Mac OS.
> 
> As Richmond suggests, yes, there are a lot of XP desktops in countries where
> new software purchases tend to be low. But also, there are many, many
> households and SMBs that run what they have, for as long as they can - they
> view the PC as a tool to get tasks done.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Lynn
> 
> 
> 
> 
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