za.ch: Well support for windows 7 runs out in about 6 weeks, so better get used to it. ;-)
Shmacky-McNuts: Unlikely, seeing as they just cut XP not long ago. Each system OS gets updates as long as the user base is high enough regardless of what is mentioned to the general public. Many companies would be pretty pissed off and public service establishments would be vulnerable as well.
But besides that, MS knows they went full retard with Win8. Like designing a car and putting the steering wheel in the trunk. >_>
Nobody wants to use a OS designed for touch tablets and phones on a friggin tower or laptop. It is counter intuitive in almost every aspect of design for such devices.
"Hey folks check out my 30" widescreen with every control used as touch based...*gags* wtf....."
Yeah, like they gave XP users the latest windows features right? DX 11? Nope.
Updated voice recognition and text to speech? Nope.
Latest Internet Browser? Nope.
The better network stack? Nope.
Support for 8GB of RAM? Nope.
Basic stuff like Color-Management? Nope.
Wait a second I start to see a pattern.
The first period of support is feature upgrade support. The second half, extended support, is about security updates. That is the one that recently run out for XP and that is the one that got extended for WinXP, which might not even that much related to popularity of XP, but more to Microsoft selling much longer the XP-Kernel for windows embedded systems, ATMs, etc. Those are even right now in their regular extended support phase.