Windows 3

[Fel]

XP is dead because it does not update any more. Though many businesses still use it, it has become a serious security risk. It is just asking for financial or customer data being stolen, so seeing that a company is still using XP is a major red flag that they do not care or know how to reasonably secure their IT works. It would probably be wise to stay away from those companies.

This is... more right than the nonsense people say online. XP as a home system is perfectly fine, no one is going to bother writing a virus that only affects (what is it, 3% now?) of their intended targets... except for fame (i.e. targeting mac os or linux); the security risk comes from business. You CAN lock XP down and make it "secure" for what you know about, but with no one issuing advisories about new (err, old) security threats or how to deal with them, keeping it on an open network is a really bad idea.

And the thing is, MANY businesses do still use XP, many POS (point of sale) systems are based on XP and yes, INCOMPATIBLE with later versions of windows. Windows 7 didn't have XP compatibility emulation for gamers (Microsoft even issued a statement explaining this) it had it because business software broke because the architecture changed. xp mode. Still, obtaining new licenses for all their machines is costly and XP mode isn't 100% compatible either.