Microsoft Said to Speed Windows Upgrades to Once a Year

There's a lot of money that developers have to put into simultaneously keeping up to date with modern technology and supporting legacy technologies from a decade ago. At best, that cost alone ultimately has to get passed on to the customer. At worst, the end result is poorer quality software which brings higher support overhead and lower employee productivity.

Enterprises are changing because their customers want more. More services, more products. This drives the business units to try to deliver, and often they need better tools. But when the IT department becomes the bottleneck and the roadblock to delivering, people look to other methods like cloud based solutions. Or they just push for their own initiative internally and try to convince IT later. But either way, enterprises need to move faster because the rest of the world is. The current system is broken and if they hope to stay in business, they'll adapt. Not because developers hate IE6, but because their customers want more features, and their best employees will move to better jobs.

They need to change their ways so we can spend time and money investing in new technology, not supporting an ever growing span of obsolete systems.

They don't have to, but they they will ultimately suffer along with all consumers.