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Agree 100%. We had very little updates, most of them actually worked the first time around without crashes or missing items, development code was an easy fix/update at the time, no rocket science was needed to operate the system.
I know of many apps still requiring XP and used on our intranet which runs happily along many other current .NET, C# etc apps that are struggling to operate without constant updates or debugging. These apps DOES NOT crash. Someone came up with a bright idea to upgrade one of these apps a while back and it caused more harm than harmony, The old replaced (yes I know) VB6 app was re-installed and an entire region was kept happy... my 5 cents... 
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trønderen wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if there are lots of XP systems around that never connects to the internet.
These systems are also 100% secure for the simple reason that they don't connect to the internet.
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I'm pretty sure most security folks would say air-gapped security still isn't 100% secure.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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TNCaver wrote: I'm pretty sure most security folks would say air-gapped security still isn't 100% secure.
If a security guy says that anything is 100% secure, I would be very skeptical.
I have learned to live with a door lock that is not 100% pick proof. I send personal letters through the mail, knowing that somewhere along the line, some mail man or public officer might open the envelope to see the personal messages. I was considering setting up a SIP server so that I could encrypt my phone conversations with my friends (equipped with SIP clients handling encryption). I know that even AES256 can be broken, yet I use that for encryption. My ordinary, non-100%-secure measures against malware has kept my PCs virus-free for 30 years.
A security expert analyzed the network at my workplace, and gave a presentation of how attackers work. He started out with the very simple attacks, and and how to prevent them, and then went on: But what if the attacker ... After a number of increasingly advanced attacks, he opened each of the following steps with: Let's turn the panic control one step higher! The panic control went beyond 11 on a scale to 10, and his examples was becoming so absurd, although in theory possible, that we were laughing out loud, literally!
At the moment, my 8 year old PC serves me well. If some software forces me to update it to run Win11, I will most likely run the new PC completely offline, keeping this as the 'exposed' one. I will not fear 'air gapped' security attacks against the offlined one (given that for 30 years, I haven't had any infection of this PC and its predecessors).
I think that panic sometimes blocks common sense.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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A new report from AND Digital suggests hundreds of CEOs based in the United Kingdom are now afraid of artificial intelligence (AI) taking their jobs, but remain on the fence about exactly what to do next. Bring in the Boss-o-matic 3000!
Who would have thought that the face-eating leopards would come for our faces?
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Eventually... 
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Now that humanoids are all the rage in the robotics industry, Boston Dynamics on Tuesday officially retired theirs. Put them down before they come for us
Especially the guy with the hockey stick that keeps poking it to test if it will fall over
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The company explains that someone used AI voice-cloning tech to spoof the voice of its CEO in an attempt to trick one of its employees. Fortunately, the CEO wasn't Stephen Hawking
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In recent years, Microsoft has been hit with a series of embarrassing hacks that have exposed corporate and government customers. Even the bugs have backward compatibility
I mean, it's almost like it's the #1 OS and productivity software suite so that most of the hackers attack their software. Almost.
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Those aren't bugs, they're features.
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The blinder leading the inept. We're so dead.
Legislators drafting measures "to make it all stop, we're unhappy" 
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A nifty HDD disassembly tool, sure, but we also have a larger global need for magnets. Shake, shake, shake. Shake your boot disc
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Generative AI has advanced and developed so rapidly that even Bill Gates believes it could eventually take his job. Poor guy. I hope he has enough saved up to retire
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Only deranged AI would try to do Gates's current "job".
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Ohh! Great idea! AI fully animating (and vocalizing) Bill's avatar in the Metaverse! Nothing like a crappy experience in a crappy environment!  (Or two avatars, playing both lead roles in Dumb & Dumber, or a Beavis and Butt-Head sketch.)
(Would be one more reason to not join the Metaverse! )
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And there goes the children's fund... 
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Microsoft has announced the upcoming end of support (EOS) date for Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps, along with related productivity servers. All of those apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025. They were still supported?
I could also ask, "There are newer version of Office?"
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Microsoft has finally lifted a compatibility hold blocking Windows 10 users from updating to Windows 11 on systems with Intel Smart Sound Technology (SST) audio drivers and Intel 11th Gen Core processors. For those about to reboot, we salute you
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A new report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), which studies AI trends, found that global investment in AI fell for the second year in a row in 2023. How nice of them to join us
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