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Can anyone think of another operating system that has users pining for the ability to trade the new version in for the old?

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I seem to remember a lot of large institutions and techies kept using Windows 2000 for years after Windows XP came out.

I was in a large up-to-date teaching hospital the other day, and all their networked PC stations were running Win 2000 with some third-party specialized hospital information systems software.

I'm on a project writing browser-based pharmacy management software for hospitals. I have to make it work in IE6 because later IE version don't run on Windows 2000.

IE6 - Kill it with fire!

Might be a pain for IT to replace with Firefox, but is doable. I did this for a 60-year-old and then skinned it just like IE so the difference was barely noticeable.

I guess I meant a different operating system (OSX, NeXT, Be, Linux, etc.) not just a different version.

I know of many large companies that stayed with Windows 2000 until it was clear that their only upgrade path didn't include Vista.

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