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.
I don't think it's that they "hate" anything. Increasingly, this stuff is
produced by organized crime rings, rogue governments, and terrorists. This
is no longer script-kiddie stuff. They go where the money is, and where the
distribution is. Both of those factors favor newer OSes.
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?
No, 32 bit, all of them. I'm dealing with about 90 machines at this point,
about half XP, half Win 7. So this is my aggregate experience.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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