On 10/15/2013 8:37 PM, Ken Dibble wrote:
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.
Yes, but virus writers who hate M$ know that there will be a huge number of XP installations vulnerable, and that's the reason they'll still love to exploit XP users.
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.
Yeah but your Win 7 machine---is it 64-bit? Your XP is 32-bit. 64-bit should be faster, right?
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