[kenjackson]

You benefit from the fact that most machines are patched. If a lot more people used 2016 builds and didn’t patch you’d see a lot more exploits.

[tmcdos]

I use stock Win7 SP1 with just a couple updates (recently TLS and SHA-512, but only 27 hotfixes in total) and the only way to break something is if I deliberately run unverified executables that were manually downloaded from untrusted sources. And since I don't do this - my machine is still running the same installation that I did on December 24th 2014.