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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista after the 2nd servicepack fixed most of the shit. By that point it was a tolerable OS.

I am currently hoping for a major service pack next year to fix all the stupid shit they did in Windows 11.

You know kind of like when they fucked up windows 8, attempted a quick fix in 8.1 and finally fixed it in win10.

Of course they are at 4 major updates with win11 and it's still shit so the hope is very thin.

[–] possiblylinux127 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can understand if you would want to delay on a personal machine. That's your call. However, I am of the opinion that you should not gamble the business on it. You should not have any EOL devices in use, period. (Unless it is properly airgapped)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You should not have any EOL devices in use, period.

every business still running custom software on XP machines, press X to doubt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What do you mean? We just migrated that software to a Windows XP VM running on Windows 7! That was just 15 years ago, it'll be good for another 15 for sure.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 1 week ago

You don't connect those to the outside world