Theodoric writes:
Security flaws tend to be found by users and outside groups that stress the OS in order to actively find holes in the security. This does not happen nearly as much as with 10. From the onset 10 was much more secure than 7.
Just to expand a bit on what Theodoric is talking about here for others who may not be aware:
The security provided by Win 10 from "someone who wants to hack Stile" specifically is about as good as it's always been on any other operating system.
If some decent hacker wants to "hack Stile" - they're going to do it, and Stile can't really do much about it.
This is analogous to the same way "someone who wants to hurt Stile" in real life could likely do it if some decent hit-man really planned something out and targeted Stile specifically and carefully.
But that's not what "Win 10's good security" is supposed to protect you from.
Your best defense from this sort of things is remaining anonymous. Nobody "wants" to hack Stile when they can hack Google or Amazon or a government body and do something nefarious to make some serious money.
Win 10's good security is about protecting you from every-day auto-hacks.
The internet is actually full of a bunch of automatic viruses/hacks that just "live out in the interwebs."
They float about, continually trying to hack anything they can for whatever purpose they were created for. Forever. They work automatically. If the hole they are programmed to exploit exists - they will exploit it. If not, they move onto the "next target." More and more of these are created everyday.
This is where Win 10's security shines. It's the best windows-operating system for protecting you against these constant threats. Win 7 is less so (partly because there are less updates for it now, and partly because there are architecture issues that simply cannot be protected with an "update.") Win XP is basically an open book for auto-hackers at this point.
If you walked into any large company (say... Chrysler or Fisher-Price or anything on that sort of scale) and tried to connect to their network with a Win 7 (or lower) operating system - their IS department would flip-out on you. You're basically opening up their internal system to all these "auto-hacks" that are not protected on "under Win 10" operating systems.
It's just the way it works. The effort (time and money) MS would have to put in to protect Win XP and Win 7 as well as they protect Win 10 is just not worth the revenue they're receiving from those product now (basically - none at all.) MS would go out of business. But, the latest operating software sells for new products - so they can spend time and money on protecting the latest operating system.
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