I’m still using Windows 2000 Professional on my desktop. Works great.
well they stopped putting out security patches for 2000 a while back.
good luck
3 desktops here. win2000 pro on one, xp pro on one and 7 on one. I really do like 7.
I’m still using XP on my desktop and laptop at home. For that matter, I’m using XP at work too.
That is fine if you stay off the internet unless you are running very sophisticated anti-virus and anti-malware software. Microsoft doesn’t support that OS. Your first line of defense is Windows Updates and you will get none for that. They are soon to not support XP. You have to be upstream from that.
I hope you’re really careful what sites you visit and use a browser other that IE.
That sort of illustrates a very critical point in the discussion.
It's not so salient that new Windows sales "plunged," but rather how many Windows boxes are still active regardless of age, compared to other OSs.
By the way, not knowing better, I consider all Linux systems essentially "PC" clones.