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I second DevGuy_z's call for some evidence

NZ, bluff isn't going to see you through this one. Here is the assertion you have made which you must now support with something other than your usual flouncing rhetoric :

"XP can very easily be secured against past, present, and future exploits, at least to the extent that common sense security practices can secure any OS against future exploits".

Please now detail how you make XP secure against past, present and future exploits. Please explain how your "2 minutes post XP install hardening" protects you against vulerabilitis which may be active right now, but for which no fix will be issued until Microsoft (possibly) get round to issuing a patch for them. Please explain how your 2 minutes of post XP install hardening will save you from exploits as yet unwritten, which may use vectors not even under current consideration. The truth is, you are no safer than anyone else from undiscovered, existing exploits, you are certainly no safer than anyone else from next month's WIndows exploits, at least not until you have, like a good sheep, patched your box in the aftermath.

As for apologies, if you warranted one, you would get one. You don't. Try to live with the blow to your ego.

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