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Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by codedokode on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:12AM (#14330542)
Upgrading from XP gives no benefits (for me), the PC would only work slower (and will get telemetry spyware). I wish Microsoft stopped developing new OS with useless (for me) features and instead fixed bugs in older systems.

The only good thing that was added in Windows 7 was a search field in start menu. And builtin firewall became able to filter outgoing connections. But it is not worth bothering with upgrading the system.

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Re:Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP by r3bl on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:44AM (#14331508)
How about having an up-to-date browser? Firefox stopped supporting XP with v52, and Chrome with v50.

There were some problems with opening Let's Encrypt-encrypted websites on one of these browsers since they've stopped supporting it, can't remember which one.

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