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by InclinedPlane 4475 days ago
The version numbers don't indicated complete and utter uncommonality of the code base, they just indicate points of major revisions. XP and Vista/7/8 do still share a lot of common sub-systems, code, and designs, many vulnerabilities that will be discovered and patched in currently supported versions of windows will definitely apply to XP.