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My wife has an embroidery machine. The very expensive embroidery software runs on Windows XP. I have a VM dedicated for this software with no intention to updat

• closeparen 8y ago
  When you elevate everyone else’s risk exposure by driving too fast on a public road or smoking in a public place, you pay a fine. I imagine we’ll need to do the same to people who feel that “bits do not rot” operating ancient software on the internet. (With similar allowances for doing whatever you want in private).
  • ghaff 8y ago
    That's the important distinction. If you have, in effect, an embedded application/OS that isn't networked or for that matter a 1980s gaming machine, you can run CP/M for all I care as long as it's isolated from the external network (and ideally not networked at all). But if you're connecting to the Internet with an unsupported version of Windows, you're being irresponsible.
    • TheRealDunkirk 8y ago
      Because your computer is going to infect someone else's computer with a virus? If that's the argument, then this thread is starting to look like a vax/anti-vax debate.