Depends on how old. What I'm running
and like would not have run on
Windows 3.1 or PC/DOS but did run
on Windows NT SP3 and Windows 2000.
But maybe some of that software would
have run into problems on Vista.
Maybe Microsoft wants to assume that I
will do my typing into Word or Outlook
or Excel. No I won't. I type into
my favorite text editor KEDIT. I keep
my e-mail in files maintained with KEDIT
and use Outlook only to send and receive, that
is, handle the POP3 interactions. Maybe
Microsoft believes that, sure, I will
do my word whacking with Word. No I won't;
I use Knuth's TeX and, then, PDF.
Microsoft thinks I like their efforts
at GUIs -- I hate nearly all GUI efforts
and make heavy use of command lines in
text windows. The command lines run
scripts I wrote.
I make relatively little and light
use of the features of XP and
still less use of Microsoft's
applications. So, my security
is not very vulnerable to
any remaining security holes
in XP.
