Microsoft stopped supporting microsoft visual studio premium 2013 in April 2014, however the product is still a moneymaker.

That is because some customers just cannot let go of it. America Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), for instance, inked a $9.1 million contract with all the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant this month to keep its XP-based systems afloat. Microsoft , in exchange, will supply the command with custom security fixes for its products for example Windows XP, which will no longer gets security updates, and Office 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003, which lapse in mid-July, reports IDG News.

"The Navy utilizes a number of legacy applications and programs which are reliant on legacy Windows products," SPAWAR spokesman Steven Davis told the news service. "Until those applications and programs are modernized or removed, this continuity of services is required to maintain operational effectiveness."

The truth is, as many as 100,000 machines at SPAWAR may depend on the outdated technology, based on a federal contract extension.

But the Navy isn't only holdover. The Army recently green-lit an extension of rosetta stone language cd support for "over 8,000 devices," Ars Technica suggests. And federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service remain paying for support while they transition to Windows 7, for which free security updates won't end until the beginning of 2020. (Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 following July.)

All this may seem weird, but it would be much more dangerous for the Navy permit its contract expire or for it to roll out an emergency main system refresh that it could potentially botch. Letting its cheap adobe maaster collection cs6 support expire might leave "critical command and control systems" vulnerable to attack, as IDG notes, citing Navy documents.

"A plan for migrating to current and supported capabilities may be developed and has been executed," Davis said.