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Certain customers can still buy freshly-minted copies of any version of Windows from Windows 95 onwards.

And where can you buy these "freshly minted" copies at? I don't currently see anywhere where there are downgrade rights to anything other than XP at the moment.

They only retired Windows 3.11 for Workgroups from this system a few years ago.

Who's they? And what system?

The companies buying these OSs *know* they're unsupported. The only reason they generally buy them is for support or compatibility reasons.

Such as?

Look, I'm all for putting off buying new OSes for a few years. One doesn't have to have the latest and greatest if they don't want to, but 15 years? That's pretty ridiculous.
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