Originally Posted by
KRSW
What's wrong with stability, great performance, and no forced updates? The computers are happily running isolated. There are very few places where a computer is sitting on a raw internet connection these days. Even the cable companies filter residential and business connections now. Even most of our data center has some form of firewall. There's only a couple of places in there where raw internet lives...and occasionally we'll toss a computer on there to see how long before it gets compromised. It used to be bad with Win2k/Server2003.
Updates are a necessary evil unless you want to be vulnerable to zero days. Running "isolated" laptops? What's the use case for that? Solitaire?
If your company is depending on public ISPs as part of your cyber defense, they'd better sleep with one eye open!