Because they know that it'll be incredibly popular and will force them to continue backporting updates. They want to move forward and users want to stay on one place. In the past users managed to keep Microsoft from moving forward. Now they want to force users to move forward. Nobody is happy in both cases, it seems.
What I don’t get is that as a company, money should be their objective. They have people asking to pay money for a license, why not charge whatever it takes to make backporting updates profitable and call it a day?
>Because they know that it'll be incredibly popular and will force them to continue backporting updates.
I don't get it. How does popularity have anything to do with how much effort is needed to backport updates? Those editions already exist, so they're already committed to supplying updates. Might as well make some extra money by selling it for $300+ retail.
