Mypal68

I refurbish and sell Windows XP machines as a side business; there's a surprisingly large market for them. My customers mostly break down into the following groups: 1) People looking to play retro games 2) People looking to work with legacy hardware, especially in manufacturing and healthcare 3) People who want the comfort/familiarity of an older operating system I'm always careful to issue a disclaimer that Windows XP should never be used for anything where you need security, in practice, I don't see much of an issue. The reality is that although XP is a tempting target in terms of vulnerability, it's not widely used enough to be useful to modern malware. The machines I sell come with Windows XP Delta Edition[1], which as far as I know comes with all the available updates for XP already installed - no Legacy Update necessary. I've been u

The most useful Mozilla-family browser is MyPal68, which is highly usable. https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68

This is true for Windows. Free software has helped keep operating systems like Windows XP and 7 still modern and secure, and many applications have been patched to work on these older systems. Here is for instance a port of Firefox Quantum to XP and a fork of Chromium maintaining support for 7, but I like to stick to the last Ungoogled Chromium version because I hate Google. https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68 https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

See http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/ and https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68 Discussions of those builds can be found in relevant threads on relevant forums.