[Swiss1000]

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An old tablet, with no mails, no insecure browser is not risky. A encourage new members to devolute the tab for Mobile Sheet, exclusively.
Very usefull and easy to have one in spare, only Google Drive acount is needed. And stand alone tablets are not intersting to hack. And if hacked, what the problem, a loser lost his time ?
It is not as certain if your tab have Sims card, or if you use it to acces importants acounts...

[FloppyPlops]

Why anyone would put a sheet music display device on the internet escapes me . . .

Perhaps some really outlandishly niche use case, like, say, wanting to be able to play a piece of music that isn't currently in your library?

[FloppyPlops]

(Of course, if anyone running Whinduhs clearly isn't terribly concerned with security in the first place, considering it's abysmal track record . . . )

So you're saying it'd make sense if software was more widely available for more secure operating systems, like e.g... Linux?

[FloppyPlops]

stand alone tablets are not intersting to hack

So hacking in your mind is like in CSI, where some bad actor is really invested in hacking your specific tablet?
It's a numbers game. Once W10 goes out of support, hackers will be massively invested in discovering and exploiting vunerabilities in it, because they know there will be hundreds of thousands of users still using it. They don't target invividual machines, they cast a net and see what it catches. And it might be ransomware, to steal your data, or to spy on you through your webcam, it might be to set up your tablet as part of a botnet - which you never even notice happen, or something else currently unimaginable.

For W10 users, yes, there are technically ways around the issue: Buy new hardware, cut yourself off from the internet, don't use your tablet for anything else. Great (if inconvenient) for those who can afford separate hardware for every activity in their lives.
But it sounds like you're still expecting the developer of MS to keep developing their software for an unsupported operating system. Which might mean no extra overhead to start with, but what happens when the tools and frameworks (created by Microsoft or third parties) that they require to develop MS gradually drop support for W10 too?

[tadawson]

Why anyone would put a sheet music display device on the internet escapes me . . .

Perhaps some really outlandishly niche use case, like, say, wanting to be able to play a piece of music that isn't currently in your library?

Not required! Load it from your computer locally (you know, where your library backup/source shoukd be kept) . . .

[tadawson]

(Of course, if anyone running Whinduhs clearly isn't terribly concerned with security in the first place, considering it's abysmal track record . . . )

So you're saying it'd make sense if software was more widely available for more secure operating systems, like e.g... Linux?

It would certainly be a large movement upward in terms of security and performance, along with a lower cost . . (both in hardware and OS).