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To: PAR35

XP Pro was a great OS, and is maybe a tie with Win-7 Pro. Anything from Win-8 on, is pure poison and stupidity.


30 posted on 02/23/2025 10:29:26 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Carriage Hill

EXCEPT — XP has quite a few known exploits that can be targeted by many bots, hackers and probes.

The whole Windows Kernel was rewritten in Windows Vista (5.0) to specifically close them.

As the years went by, exploits were found in the 5.X kernel, and Windows 10 is kernel 10., as is Windows 11.

The cybersecurity profile of every operating system gets pored over by experts and bad guys every day. The longer in production, the more likely a unpatchable hole is found.

Microsoft stopped providing any patches for XP LONG ago, and & a few years ago. The same will happen to Windows 10 next year.

Using them when connected to the Internet is risky.


35 posted on 02/23/2025 10:48:33 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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