XP has been out of mainstream support for 5 years now. After 8 April, XP
machines will be in a permanent state of zero-day vulnerability.
The older an OS is, the less likely it is to be attacked. Malware producers
are like everybody else in the computer industry; they target the
latest-and-greatest. Eventually, the stuff aimed at older OSes drops out of
circulation, Meanwhile the new ones keep getting hit harder and harder.
My problem with XP seems to be cruft. People who constantly update the OS
don't notice this perhaps. But go 6 months between applications of critical
updates to XP and you will immediately notice the loss of performance. I
have XP running on machines with 2.6 GHz processors and 2 GB of RAM, and
are only 3 years old, and they are so slow they are approaching unusable.
(And yes, they are clean; have passed Spybot, MalwareBytes, and Avast! full
scans with flying colors, and have been defragged.)
I don't notice Win 7 slowing down nearly as much after updates. The one
thing I'm seeing a lot of with updated Win 7 is delays when switching
between users. These days the screen has time to go dark and display the
"no input" message during the switch. That never used to happen.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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