Sorry, but you're making a generalized assumption here.  It isn't always that the person is 'afraid of change,' it is sometimes about how the newer OS behaves with the software available.  Microsoft is notorious for making changes under the guise of 'improvements' that renders older software unusable.  That effort is seen (by the smarter of us, at least) as a way to force the purchase of the newer OS.

I admit that I did not like having to use the 'metro' interface of Win 8 beta, but it was usable.  The Win 8 general release included the ability to switch to the 'classic' Win 7 desktop--a definite improvement for those who still used a keyboard and mouse.  The clincher, however, was that with the revised coding, some software that Win 7 supported easily was no longer useable--and that same thing has been happening between the software and the OS ever since the Windows 2000 release. 

I for one get sick and tired of having to pay out to these software giants every time someone has a newer idea--and puts that idea into production in the form of a revised OS.  If the older system and software (and hardware, for that matter--re: the elimination of serial ports in favor of USB ports) works for what someone is doing with it--and they're satisfied with the system they are using, you have no cause--or right--to label that person as you have.  You come off just like a kid with a new toy--calling down another kid because they don't have that toy.  So go and play with your new OS and hardware, and leave the rest of us in peace.  Oh, yes...  and have a nice day!

Hotmail services have already been ended according to the news release from Microsoft a week or two ago.  The thing I find interesting is that the 'live' e-mail service is still running, and all that was supposed to be was an extension of hotmail.

And corners of screen too. You can tell it was designed for a tablet first, desktop second.

The "problem" is Internet standards have changed a lot and old hardware and OS cannot fully support it. As far as WIN 8 I admit I was not that crazy about it but after using it several times and getting to know it is WAY better than XP and maybe & to in some ways.

I theory yes but, if OS does not support the protocol and ports needed it would not in theory. On Thunderbird, it refused to work with POP on a 64bit Win 8 system I tried it on but a few other clients did fine. One that I liked most of them was Sylpheed ver 3.4 beta 3. Lot of power user features. Reminds me of a old mail program i used for many years, PM Mail which had roots in OS2.  I still like Outlook 2007 and 2010 though. Have not used latest version.   

Clearly the Koch random character progression method works for some. If it works for you, that's great. It does not work for everyone. Personally I think most of the time (well over a year) I spent trying to learn Morse using it was time I wasted. I should have looked at the statistics LCWO threw back at me a lot more critically, and gone elsewhere much much sooner.

Stay away from Dell, Founder wants to take it private and get out of consumer PC business and focus on servers and software so future support is in question.

Yes, and with your comments you have also contributed to the "os wars".  Or do you think you are exempt from the criticism you level on everyone else even though you commit the same sins?