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Originally Posted by matthey
XP runs perfectly fine and an anti-virus program takes care of most security problems. It would be the best choice for old PC hardware if developers would ignore M$ who benefits from the "obsolescence" of an old OS and hardware so it can sell new versions to the sheep.
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As a security guy, I'm going to have to disagree here. I'd be _very_ reluctant to put XP on any network that touches the internet. Your attack surface is large, well documented, and so vast it requires an entire OS rewrite, which is exactly what they did.
I'm not a M$ blowhard by any means. In fact I'm predominantly a linux guy. But XP should not touch the internet!
