The "security" of newer Windows is mostly anti-user, anti-freedom. XP doesn't enforce code signing, and SFP is only advisory, so you can run whatever you want, hack and customise the OS code easily to get it to behave how you want. Most of the exploits that gave XP a bad name in the early days were from IE in its default configuration, which basically no one on XP will be using now.
It takes time to get bugs get discovered and fixed. There's a lot of new code in these newer versions and I bet they'll be uncovering more bugs in it as time goes on, some of which won't be applicable to XP because the code isn't even present.
As for "privacy"... XP most certainly does not phone home with anywhere near the amount of info that Win10 collects, as this article shows.
I'd be more inclined to say "Worried about security and privacy...but still wants to upgrade to Windows 10?"
My next jump after XP will likely be some form of Linux with WINE - with everything that can phone home removed.
The "security" of newer Windows is mostly anti-user, anti-freedom. XP doesn't enforce code signing, and SFP is only advisory, so you can run whatever you want, hack and customise the OS code easily to get it to behave how you want. Most of the exploits that gave XP a bad name in the early days were from IE in its default configuration, which basically no one on XP will be using now.
It takes time to get bugs get discovered and fixed. There's a lot of new code in these newer versions and I bet they'll be uncovering more bugs in it as time goes on, some of which won't be applicable to XP because the code isn't even present.
As for "privacy"... XP most certainly does not phone home with anywhere near the amount of info that Win10 collects, as this article shows.
I'd be more inclined to say "Worried about security and privacy...but still wants to upgrade to Windows 10?"
My next jump after XP will likely be some form of Linux with WINE - with everything that can phone home removed.