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Windows Zero-day Flaw Let Hackers Downgrade Fully Updated Systems to Old Vulnerabilities
(cybersecuritynews.com)
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I actually briefly used an XP machine a few months ago, for the first time in many years. It was weird, it felt like I was revisiting an old childhood home or something. Everything was right where I remembered it, everything worked the way I expected it to.
I kinda want to go back. We never realized how good we had it.
The only thing I miss from XP is the classic lock screen where it had your wallpaper and a login window in the air
For me, I was enamored with the simplicity of it. You click Start and the Start menu just appears, without having to spend 10 seconds connecting to the internet to refresh a bunch of tiles that I never wanted in the first place. There wasn't any half-baked "assistant" trying to suggest new spyware for me to install. It didn't try making me sign into a Microsoft account just to open the photo gallery. The only "bloatware" it came preinstalled with was Outlook Express. The whole experience just made the computer feel like a tool to use for a purpose again.
It's funny, because I remember thinking when Vista and subsequent versions of Windows came out, that it was amazing we ever survived with something as primitive as XP. But these days, all I want is to go back to that.