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There are a huge number of post-SP2 updates for Office 2010. It will take a very long time for Microsoft Update to find them and install them. Leave it overnight and see how far it gets.

I'm using a v69 (late 2018) and it works for 90% or so of everything I've thrown at it. Regarding the other 10%, and to be as blunt as possible, "nobody cares". I mean that towards the web masters running those 10% of web sites - "none of them care". As much as we (myself included) "live in the past", we are unrealistic to expect web masters to remain in the past. Web masters know what browsers are visiting their web site. They know that for every 10,000 visits, they have 1 using a four-year old web browser or a twenty-year old operating system. LIFE GOES ON if they "lose" that ONE visitor. Plain and simple.

Just came by to see if there was any reaction to the new release of Pale Moon 30. It appears that, while it runs on the Goanna engine, Pale Moon is no longer built on UXP. I'm just trying it right now to see if any sites I was using before run now.

This site:

All these problems with Microsoft Office, especially endless searches of Microsoft Update, incompatible updates and so on, made me stop installing Microsoft Office packages on Windows XP a long time ago. I use Softmaker Office 2016 Portable with all available features. It's totally sufficient for me. If I had to use Microsoft Office in Windows XP, I would install Office 2007. Older software is often a better choice in an old operating system.

Not even that - but only the *latest* versions of those browsers! (Technically, I'm using "Chrome", but a 3 year old version). Maybe this will be a wakeup call to the WWW: stop using useless JS libraries you don't need and write all your damn code yourself. If you can't understand it, and you don't know what it does, and you don't know why you need, then don't use it!!! This has never failed to serve me well as a webmaster. And of course, none of my websites randomly break. jquery is pretty much the only JS library I ever use, and even then, only on pages that actually "need" JS. Everything else on top of that, I write if I need it. And if I don't need JS, I don't use it. It's not "simplistic", it's called "resilient progressive web development".

Another thing to consider is that office 2013+ uses sppsvc - a Windows Product Activation service introduced in Windows 7 which would have to be backported without breaking Vista's activation system. (Office 2010 had it's own licensing system), and I'm not sure if this will be possible in the near future.

Thanks but unfortunately the search doesn't work. Add the sites https://go.microsoft.com and http://go.microsoft.com to Trusted Sites and set the security level to high. Then add the WU site to the compatibility list.

I also miss normal settings for coloring window captions depending on window state. I guess it works if you dig out classic theme, which is really a raw shell buried underneath, but DWM normally doesn't care about those. Maybe only active color, and even then it may not work all the time since it switches between two colors depending on the brightness of the accent color and you only have control over one AFAIK (or maybe I just didn't find it). Another lame File Explorer degradation got to be the omission of showing image thumbnails on the icon of the folder containing images. There's no proper fix for that. XP's Explorer has no problem showing 4 of those. It's horror show without that IMO. I tested that thing on a virtual machine and encountered weird glitch with my favorite settings combination that the author cannot reproduce (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/895). I think I'll worry about Windows 11 if it gets some killer new feature I'd be interested in or some application requires it. Given my simpler needs, I guess I'm good for a while.

Can't say I notice any difference during normal browsing. Some writeup on texture uploads related to zero-copy rasterizer. Perhaps it's more relevant for Intel CPUs with onboard GPU. This might be another hint that it might be completely irrelevant on Windows.

Most of my hardware was received used, more than 10 years old, often poorly or not maintained. As my systems get older and precious, more energy is spent refurbishing hardware. For me the 1-3 year category is ideal, these systems don't run 24/7. A sticky is placed on the tower after cleaning, noting the date and whether the processor was re-seated with fresh thermal paste. Priority is given to systems with the most estimated runtime. My shop is indoors so a vacuum and dry brushes are used. Everything gets pulled, contacts cleaned and re-seated. Power supplies are given special attention, opened up and thoroughly cleaned. One power supply was so dirty it is doubtful there was any cooling airflow. Congratulations on fixing your audio jack @UCyborg.