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I refurbish and sell Windows XP machines as a side business; there's a surprisingly large market for them. My customers mostly break down into the following groups:

1) People looking to play retro games

2) People looking to work with legacy hardware, especially in manufacturing and healthcare

3) People who want the comfort/familiarity of an older operating system

I'm always careful to issue a disclaimer that Windows XP should never be used for anything where you need security, in practice, I don't see much of an issue. The reality is that although XP is a tempting target in terms of vulnerability, it's not widely used enough to be useful to modern malware.

The machines I sell come with Windows XP Delta Edition[1], which as far as I know comes with all the available updates for XP already installed - no Legacy Update necessary. I've been using the Mypal browser [2], but will definitely try Supermium!

[1] https://xpdelta.weebly.com/xp.html [2] https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/releases

>>ivraat+(OP)
They released XP well into Windows 7, I'm surprised that there's that much incompatibility with modern versions of windows when running software.

>>ivraat+(OP)
Wait, is this legal/allowed?

>>orland+IE2
No, but realistically speaking, no one cares. If some big youtuber made a video about it it would likely be shut down.

>>orland+IE2
All the laptops I sell with Windows XP have Windows XP or newer OEM license keys included with them, so yes, it is legal, or at least legal enough that I don't think Microsoft or anyone cares. XP Delta Edition has the same featureset as XP Pro for licensing purposes, though the licensing of some of the software with it is muddier.

That said, as there's currently no way to legally buy Windows XP from Microsoft (or any official source), it's not really harming anyone to just install it wherever, in my view.

I also sell Windows 10 machines, and they all come with genuine licenses (often also OEM, or I buy them). I often get questions about whether my Windows 10 systems are genuine Windows, but nobody has ever asked about XP.