Unless you are going to switch to Linux, stay with an older version of Windows and never get another update or switch to a Mac ... what are you going to do?
Stay with Windows 7 ! :-)
Are you implying there is something wrong with those options? I run all of those, and they're all viable. I'm also upgrading a few selected Win7 VMs to Win10 to get used to it. Mostly though I'm sticking with Win7 (and my other machines running Linux, BSD Unix, and OS X).
>>Unless you are going to switch to Linux, stay with an older version of Windows and never get another update or switch to a Mac ... what are you going to do?<<
For the past year and a half I have no had a single update on my Win XP Pro. I have a Win 7 laptop that hasn’t had any updates. My browser are Firefox 15.2 and 16.0. I do not update either of those also.
From what I have learned updates add more ways for them to track your daily usage and put addons onto your browser so you can see fancy advertisements, which of course they get paid for.
I have AdBlock Plus and NoScript addons.
At the end of every day I run CCleaner and MRU Blaster before I shutdown. Once a month I run Malwarebytes.
Since I changed to solid state hard drives the machine runs faster than I can type.
If you can see where I’m doing something wrong, please tell me. It’s been five years or so since I have had a virus.
I just upgraded from Vista Home Premium to 7Pro on my primary computer after Vista started getting buggy and I couldn’t resolve the problem that was causing spontaneous reboots/shutdowns with no error messages or dumps (not bad memory .. tried that first)... Luckily one of my kids laptops with 7 was physically destroyed so I was able to use that COA/license and upgrade my pc... I haven’t seen any real improvement with windows since W2K-Pro in 1999 ,, just added bloat and gingerbread ,, with 8/8.1/10 and the spectre of monthly/yearly license fees with 10 I’m keeping 7 forever or going unix ... I have Linux on several old XP era pc’s.
Microsoft's development process has matured over the years, but they still rush to market with a solid kernel but flaky features. This is their first big patch release and likely the stabilizer that will put most people over the fence to upgrade.