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   From: bap@shrdlu.com   
      
   ["Followup-To:" header set to uk.d-i-y.]   
   On 2025-03-27, Jeff Gaines  wrote:   
   > On 27/03/2025 in message  Lawrence   
   > D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:02:39 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Well I have had pretty good results for MY needs with HP laptops BUT   
   >>>anything to run Windows 11 seems very expensive. Like £400   
   >>>   
   >>>Whereas a Windows ten capable refurbished is under £100   
   >>   
   >>Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,   
   >>unsupported software?   
   >   
   > I use Windows 8.1 on all my machines that will run it because it allows me   
   > to download updates and install them when convenient to me. Why this   
   > facility doesn't exit on Win 10 goodness knows.   
   >   
   > I see you've been suckered by MSFT marketing bullshit :-)   
   >   
   Yes and no.  As an IT Manager I described myself as custodian of the   
   corporate paranoia.  One of the options I had was to check that any machine   
   connected had the right OS and had all of the patches I considered   
   essential.  If I had been managing financial or other critical data the   
   patches might have been added to the critical list within a few days of   
   release.   
      
   It takes about three days for miscreants to download a patch and   
   reverse-engineer an exploit.  So exploits by skript-kiddies are most likely   
   three days after a patch.  They get progressively less likely after that.   
      
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   Bernard Peek   
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   Wigan   
      
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