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While XP may be dead in one sense it’s still alive and in use. My father is 89 and uses an XP machine. He uses it for solitaire and email only. The last time his computer died I put Windows 7 on the new machine. No outlook express any more so I set up Thunderbird. It was just enough different he couldn’t figure it out, I kept getting calls every couple days asking how do I do this. I eventually put XP back on his machine with outlook express transferred all his emails and he is happy. He still lives in his own home and other than the fact computer technology has outpaced him he is fine. I suspect there are many others out there in the same boat. To many menus and sub menus to keep up. I’ll keep my windows 7 until I am forced to change. Every time I have upgraded I found one or two programs I used all the time didn’t work any more so I was forced to find a replacement. If it’s not software that won’t work it’s hardware. When I upgraded to windows 7 my printer and scanner would not work with it so more money wasted and hardware into the landfill.

My website gives me 500 email address. I simply make a new one for any sites I visit that need one for me to get information or make a one time purchase. It only takes a few minutes and if i start seeing spam or other junk to that address it’s gone. End of problem. I’ve only changed website names once in 15 years as like in the article the first one just seemed dumb after a while, but in the same time I’ve changed ISP’s 6 times. Since I really don’t use the address given to me by my ISP I’ve only had to go through the notify everybody of change in address once.