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How can you use such an operating system now

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[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There actually are updates to it as for the last three years Microsoft has continued to patch it under the commercial "Extended Security Update" program - that only ended in January 2023.
You just couldn't get them as a home user without doing a lot of tweaking on your own.