[dayglored]

> The cynic in me asks if this isn’t a back door approach for MS to degrade the performance of legacy OS’s.

Nah, highly unlikely it's intentional.

HOWEVER, it is certainly a reminder that running older releases of Windows is even more risky than running recent releases of Windows.

Microsoft REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wants you to migrate to Windows 10.

REALLY.

[George from New England]

I think I’m safe with my Win98. It cant even hold the update file its memory is so small !!