On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 12:24:17 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:19:12 -0400, wrote:

I just loaded a machine for my new TV with XP SP3, the 100+ updates,
the latest firefox, flash and silverlight. Everything I have tried to
play so far, works.

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If that's too up to date for you, I think there are still CDs for
Win2K and Win98 around here someplace.

One of our developers just got back from an "ethical hacking" class. Old operating systems (like XP) are prime targets for hackers since they aren't updated any longer. I had an old Aspire One notebook running XP that had all the latest patches applied and had been booted and running for a long time. A couple of weeks ago I rebooted it for some reason, and it started applying "1 of 5" updates before it shut down. I pulled the battery before it could do much, then took it off my network. It'll get freshly loaded with Windows before it goes back on the network.