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It's because the baby boomers don't know how to use technology, and they're still holding positions they should have retired from 5 years ago. This has many widespread effects, one of which is the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix'. People are still using Windows XP in their day-to-day jobs for christ-sake.

The digital revolution hasn't happened because it's being held back by dinosaurs.

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The baby boomers should be renamed "The Thievinest Generation". Between ballooning entitlements, unnecessary wars, financial crises and the "oh man, I need to hold my job until I'm 80 to afford this house/car/etc", they have been like a plague of locusts.

Edit: Ooh. "The Locust Generation" has a nice ring to it.

This. And I'm always having to clean up dinosaur shit!

(rotting corpses of processes and management hierarchies)

And the productivity difference between Windows XP and Windows 8 is...? 0.01%?

I bet is more than 10%; Windows XP comes with a lot of bad baggage.. such as IE7.

And anyway, the OS was an example, it just goes downhill from there.

Cut that 10% in half because known baggage will trump unknown valuable capabilities.

The problem is that we are talking about the kind of people that doesn't even know half the valuable capabilities of Windows XP.

True, but that won't change the fact that anything better but different from that old XP will throw most users so off they won't even care.

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