As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.
I’m not looking at it through a modern lense. It was very insecure at the time, too. I worked in a PC repair shop and at the time that business was a money printer in terms of getting rid of endless malware.
Later versions of windows cleared up the horrendous security to such an extent that the shop was no longer economically viable, and we had to close.
XP was not the first consumer version based on NT, I don’t know why you think that.
Although yes, the DOS versions were even worse. Well, in theory anyway. In practice not, since most people at that time didn’t have PCs that old connected to the internet.
They did, it was called “Windows 8” and nobody liked it.
I would not consider Win8 a “refinement” of Win7 lol, they changed the entire UX, added an app store they tried to force people into, created a new executable format, etc.
Windows 8 is basically the polar opposite of a “refinement” release!
I’m not looking at it through a modern lense. It was very insecure at the time, too. I worked in a PC repair shop and at the time that business was a money printer in terms of getting rid of endless malware.
Later versions of windows cleared up the horrendous security to such an extent that the shop was no longer economically viable, and we had to close.
XP was not the first consumer version based on NT, I don’t know why you think that.
Although yes, the DOS versions were even worse. Well, in theory anyway. In practice not, since most people at that time didn’t have PCs that old connected to the internet.
I would not consider Win8 a “refinement” of Win7 lol, they changed the entire UX, added an app store they tried to force people into, created a new executable format, etc.
Windows 8 is basically the polar opposite of a “refinement” release!