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In my lab, our mass spectrometers operating programs can only run off Windoze. If we update Windoze, then sometimes, the instrument software then needs a patch to work again. Windoze machines are ok for playing games, not much else.
In a professional environment, I can't have the machine chugging away on updates all day. Simple solution. Leave it off line. If off line, it doesn't need endless security updates. Data is transferred via a thumb drive that is only plugged into a mac at the other end so viruses can't jump the fence so to speak. Our oldest machine has been running offline without regular updates since 1990. We ran one MSDOS based package 1990-1999. Then updated once to another system in 1999 and have run that for the past 19 years. The newer machines started online then we started running into problems with updates and so both have been offline for 8 years and 5 years respectively. No problems.
Joe
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