@dogged: Indeed, however they saw the name MICROSOFT................
.............and what followed was not exactly surprising. My point (and of course clearly yours) was that if your OS has to interact with today's web then it is essential that it is a modern os with the wherewithal to tackle modern conditions. That our critics mention isolated systems is idiotic - such systems are irrelevant in this context. I repeat, I do not care whether we are talking about a modern Windows system or a modern Linux system; if your system faces "The Great Outdoors" then using an os that is more than a decade out of date as far as its fundamentals are concerned is idiocy, neither more nor less.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
