Sandboxing a windows browser? Effective?

[Iggy]

I can't see XP being that much of a target as time passes.
And the are people still using Win 95 and 98 successfully.
Backup your system regularly and don't let it worry you.

BTW - The system I'm typing this on has WinXP installed on it too.
Its an older Sun workstation with a dual core Opteron overclocked to 3 GHz and a Radeon X1900GT video card.
Dated hardware, dated software, and it flies.

[Iggy]

Using old software is a sin and terrorists could turn your computer into a bomb.

No, just kidding.
And to be intentionally repetitive, I don't even worry about it.

Btw - There is a drive to develop an open XP like OS.

Personally, I am none to fond of any OS that I couldn't give it up.
I just don't see the point in paying repeatedly for yet another derivitive of NT.

[Iggy]

The devil chicken has some good ideas.
Frankly, and Chris could testify to this, I keep so much computer crap around that if I brick one up with malware I can easily switch to something else.

And as OS go, I am looking for a excuse to explore something more exotic.
An eightcore AMD processor under Linux, a Sparc box with an X86 card under Solaris, Open BSD, something, hell anything, but Windows.

[Iggy]

ReactOS? Yeah, but it's been in alpha forever...

True, but look at AROS.
Much smaller OS, still not at V1.0.

And I would love to see at NT compatible open OS.
We could take that, focus on Open GL instead of Direct X, and run (away from Microsoft) with it.