Originally Posted by
Courtney Mil
XP and Vista might have some advantages. Apart from anything else, neither would mysteriously download an update and announce that it will shut down and restart in 5 minutes. That might seriously bugger up our exit from whichever harbour its in at the moment.
Neither will Windows 7/8/10 if you configure them that way. Even commercial Enterprise configurations point the update system to an internal update service (rather than the microsoft one) so that the company has full control over which updates are rolled out and when. That's how particular Windows lockdown configurations can be certified for use at essentially all national security levels.
PDR