Running is a very low bar, you could theoretically fire everyone except operations and keep it running. But software and networks rot. Twitter has been rotting, it's no secret. It pretty much sucks major balls.
How much smaller user base? Looking at some recent data, which may not be accurate (but they're required to publish user numbers in the EU at least), it looks like the user base may be only 0-20% smaller compared to 2022.
I find this to be a mostly valid assumption, and 8.1 shouldn't be counted separately from 8 just as Vista SP2 should be counted any differently from Vista (Vista was mostly fine after companies fixed their drivers and Microsoft toned things down a bit. 7 just drove that home and put some necessary distance between itself and Vista).
> Also 95/98/me were a different line from NT/2000.
My guess is it’s riddled with vulnerabilities. I used to write some print management software and found it very easy to crash the spooler just from routine API calls.
Not only that but it seemed every time they fixed a vulnerability some piece of functionality broke.
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