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For home and cubicle use, including almost all SW development I totally agree. On the other hand, I support a lot of production lines and test tools running Wi
by zwieback 5y ago
For home and cubicle use, including almost all SW development I totally agree.
On the other hand, I support a lot of production lines and test tools running Windows-based applications and there are two big conflicting drivers:
1) specialized hardware often comes with brittle SW and the defensive move is to not upgrade Windows hardly ever
vs.
2) vulnerabilities fixed in newer OS versions are often required by our IT staff, you don't want a production line to go down because of WannaCry or whatever
So often we disconnect ancient (e.g. Windows XP!) systems from the network and move files by thumb drive or even floppy