On Thursday, September 08, 2011 03:01:10 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, pk <pete...@coolmail.se> wrote: > >> On 2011-09-08 16:51, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >>> But the freedom is still there. The freedom to either keep your > >>> system > >>> as it is (don't upgrade) > >> > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> You do realise that this is quite valid for Windows (and all other > >> OS's > >> in existence)? At least so far... > > > > Don't get *me* started. My _day job_ is C++/MFC on Windows. _Please_ > > upgrade, you'll make my life much easier. > > > > Outdated operating systems make baby coder cry. > > I already mentioned that you update security flaws.
Update the security flaws is all nice and well, but won't hold up for very long. Security updates for older versions will stop within a short period. And not sufficient information will be available to keep patching the software individually. > And again, that's only if you resist the change. This sounds like "We are borg, resistance is futile...." :) -- Joost
