It produces a small violin?

Why are you quoting the words of slave owners in an essay about freedom?

What walled garden does Google have?

Ah the good old days of DLL hell, deployment of updates taking hours or days instead of minutes, the upgrade treadmill, VB6 et al. What a joy it must've been.

That's replacing the PC. That's not replacing all the software and custom hardware, testing it, rolling it out, retraining, fixing unexpected issues and so on, and that's assuming that there is a Windows 7 version of everything.

Having to rewrite 4 decades worth of COBOL is also a prohibitive factor.

You gonna pay?

The sheer amount of hardware and software that doesn't work with Windows 7 and therefore has to be replaced which isn't cheap for any reasonably sized organisation.

No, they made a terrible mistake by making it difficult and expensive to migrate away from XP.

And yet the only country in the developed world where mass shootings are a regular occurrence is the USA.

Or buy a Nexus phone.

I have Visual Studio. It isn't any better for debugging JS and doesn't offer any facilities for experimenting with CSS. Stop making excuses for Microsoft and telling me what I'm "supposed" to do. If I'm "supposed" to use VS then why do MS provide dev tools at all?

I know plenty of tech illiterate people who can understand the concept of removable storage, whether that's a floppy disk, USB flash drive or micro SD. I know it's fashionable to pretend that virtually everyone but geeks is stupid but it's not the case.

Android users (most of whom aren't geeks) seem to be capable of understanding the concept and Samsung et al aren't getting the blame for fake cards as far as I know.

Most people know what an SD card is or are capable of understanding what one is. Making excuses for bad technical decisions by saying users are too stupid to understand a simple concept is a cop out.

Finally they have. Why Microsoft couldn't improve their dev tools without a browser update until version 11 is a mystery. I haven't mentioned Chrome so I'm not sure why you have.