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From: Bernard Peek <bap@shrdlu.com>
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Subject: Re: Laptop replacement
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Date: 27 Mar 2025 16:38:14 GMT
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On 2025-03-27, Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
> On 27/03/2025 in message <vs2ptj$3jchh$2@dont-email.me> 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.

-- 
Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan