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And that's fine... as long as you don't connect them to the network and expect them to interact with other clients. And that's often the case for these standalone machines and tools.

The problem we're having in the real world are all of the companies and schools that have 15 year old machines that they use for reading email and filling in spreadsheets that are connected to the internet because their corporate IT was a guy that liked computers in high school and was hired with zero training.

Shame too, since almost all of those cases would be well covered with Linux distributions, or now even Chromebooks.



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