On: Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack

[frik]

> Re your Statscounter link http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/de...

Win 7 is rising again for months

Win10 and WinXP are shrinking

[dis-sys → frik]

It is normal to see such data move +/-1% in a few months time. It is far more shocking to see 18% windows users in China are still running their XP. Must be very easy for NSA to do their job.

[toyg → dis-sys]

The elephant in the room is that XP was the last version of Windows that was relatively trivial to pirate. Activation procedures got stricter from 2008 onwards.

[rangibaby → toyg]

What makes you think that? Win 7 is simple to activate using Daz loader etc. my theory is that Win XP is the last version of Windows that will run comfortably on true toaster <1GB RAM computers.

[collinmanderson → toyg]

See, I would have said that with Windows 2000. It came out only two years earlier and was pretty similar. I definitely am still holding on to my install cds.

[tomc1985 → dis-sys]

Then you really don't want to see South America... a few years ago every PC I saw at a business ran XP.

[lovich → dis-sys]

When I visited a firm we had contracted out with in India they also had machines running xp right next to machines running Windows 10 for our project