Can you get a decent browser on Windows XP?
I'm doing some MUCH overdue electronics purging. We have two laptops running Windows XP that I would like to donate to a local charity. They actually run pretty well except for internet access. Th...
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I quit using XP when Windows 7 came out because I was gaming at the time, and games ran better with the hardware available to Windows 7 machines.
But after reading quite a bit about the "dangers" of XP, I do wonder if the danger isn't maybe overdone a bit. One of the first stories I read was from 2014 when they said XP, wasn't immediately dangerous to use, but it would be in the near future. Now it's 6 years later and except for the issue with Internet Explorer, not actually XP, there have been no horror stories about XP usage.
So much of us depend on other sources to keep us informed, and if those sources are biased a bit we have few fact checking places to check. Most computer services and computer businesses are served well by people buying new machines, and probably prefer the old stuff disappear.
Maybe they're like Apple: "Newer is best, old is bad, buy new this year so you don't get left behind".
But after reading quite a bit about the "dangers" of XP, I do wonder if the danger isn't maybe overdone a bit. One of the first stories I read was from 2014 when they said XP, wasn't immediately dangerous to use, but it would be in the near future. Now it's 6 years later and except for the issue with Internet Explorer, not actually XP, there have been no horror stories about XP usage.
So much of us depend on other sources to keep us informed, and if those sources are biased a bit we have few fact checking places to check. Most computer services and computer businesses are served well by people buying new machines, and probably prefer the old stuff disappear.
Maybe they're like Apple: "Newer is best, old is bad, buy new this year so you don't get left behind".
