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by userbinator 3709 days ago
Hell, some people are still chugging along with 2003sp2

I'd think this is for the same reason XP lasted so long --- it's a good stable platform free of all the hassles and complexities of the ones that came after it. A lot of home users are already quite disturbed by the privacy implications of Windows 10, and if anything big businesses would be even more cautious of the same for its server counterpart.

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I'd be interested to see a survey of home users with regards to privacy. I think a lot fewer care than we'd hope.
and all of those home users are on Facebook already, so it probably doesn't matter.
Just because you're on facebook doesn't mean everyone is.

I'm one of an extremely large number of people who haven't made your mistakes. We tend not to bring it up because people like you go super-aggressive-defense and accuse us of being paranoid if we do.

Don't mistake our not bring it up for us not existing.

Not on facebook.
By the same logic; I am a UK citizen, so it "probably" doesn't matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora