Microsoft has a Windows XP problem: people still like it and aren't willing to upgrade just yet. So it's warning users that if they don't upgrade soon, each new Patch Tuesday will gift a new series of vulnerabilities to the hacking community.
Windows XP runs like a dog on more modern hardware. Switching to Windows 7 with my old Core2Duo felt like a huge leap in performance. I don't get why business's are so hesitant to upgrade. Windows 7 is still available for business pc's...
Windows XP runs like a dog on more modern hardware. Switching to Windows 7 with my old Core2Duo felt like a huge leap in performance. I don't get why business's are so hesitant to upgrade. Windows 7 is still available for business pc's...
There's a fair number of older programs that aren't very compatible with Windows 7. There are new versions that are, but upgrading the OS then requires multiple new software licenses. Then there's training for the new versions.
TL;DR: They consider the upgrade more expensive than the lost productivity.
This might come as a shock to some people but M$ is in business to make money. They don't get paid to write patches. M$ actually is quite generous supporting software for ten years or, in the case of XP, more. M$ makes it known upfront that there will be an EOL on their OSes so no one has any room to complain. If anyone or any business doesn't plan ahead for the inevitable need to upgrade, they have no room to complain.
Wait, So they are purposly maliciously handing out exploits to people to use against windows Xp, doesn't that come under you know, Damaging control, Piracy terrorism, something along the lines, I'm sure theres a word for it i just can't think of it.
Wait, So they are purposly maliciously handing out exploits to people to use against windows Xp, doesn't that come under you know, Damaging control, Piracy terrorism, something along the lines, I'm sure theres a word for it i just can't think of it.
This, really.
There's a huge difference between not supporting a product and maliciously going out of your way to sabotage outdated systems to try to gain some type of profit.
Wait, So they are purposly maliciously handing out exploits to people to use against windows Xp, doesn't that come under you know, Damaging control, Piracy terrorism, something along the lines, I'm sure theres a word for it i just can't think of it.
This, really.
There's a huge difference between not supporting a product and maliciously going out of your way to sabotage outdated systems to try to gain some type of profit.
I'm going to have to read more into this, but apple has been doing that since the 3gs... However, more in the sense of bogging down performance so customers are forced to retire their phone.
This, really.
There's a huge difference between not supporting a product and maliciously going out of your way to sabotage outdated systems to try to gain some type of profit.
Wait, So they are purposly maliciously handing out exploits to people to use against windows Xp, doesn't that come under you know, Damaging control, Piracy terrorism, something along the lines, I'm sure theres a word for it i just can't think of it.
/"The very first month that Microsoft releases security updates for supported versions of Windows, attackers will reverse engineer those updates, find the vulnerabilities and test Windows XP to see if it shares those vulnerabilities," said Tim Rains, Microsoft's director of trustworthy computing, in a blog post.
"If it does, attackers will attempt to develop exploit code that can take advantage of those vulnerabilities on Windows XP. Since a security update will never become available for Windows XP to address these vulnerabilities, Windows XP will essentially have a 'zero day' vulnerability forever./
Please read the article ... Microsoft merely warns that, since they are not attending to possible exploits on their last patch, you are SOL.
Wait, So they are purposly maliciously handing out exploits to people to use against windows Xp, doesn't that come under you know, Damaging control, Piracy terrorism, something along the lines, I'm sure theres a word for it i just can't think of it.
/"The very first month that Microsoft releases security updates for supported versions of Windows, attackers will reverse engineer those updates, find the vulnerabilities and test Windows XP to see if it shares those vulnerabilities," said Tim Rains, Microsoft's director of trustworthy computing, in a blog post.
"If it does, attackers will attempt to develop exploit code that can take advantage of those vulnerabilities on Windows XP. Since a security update will never become available for Windows XP to address these vulnerabilities, Windows XP will essentially have a 'zero day' vulnerability forever./
Please read the article ... Microsoft merely warns that, since they are not attending to possible exploits on their last patch, you are SOL.
My systems that currently use XP will continue to do so. None of them are vulnerable to these exploits because none of them are in positions where they could possibly run or be exposed to the malware that would exploit them.
I've still got a few systems running Windows 2000 and they are rock solid. No sense in "upgrading" when a newer OS wouldn't let them do what they do any better.
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And no, it's not broken, and no lack of security updates can make it so.
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Windows XP runs like a dog on more modern hardware. Switching to Windows 7 with my old Core2Duo felt like a huge leap in performance. I don't get why business's are so hesitant to upgrade. Windows 7 is still available for business pc's...
XP x64 still runs well on my best systems. Indeed if I weren't gaming on my main system, I'd probably choose XP x64 or Server 2003 over Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, or Windows 8(.1).
People are hesitant to "upgrade" because the upgrade is often no such thing. Also there are often significant costs involved, both in time/effort, and in money.
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Wait, So they are purposly maliciously handing out exploits to people to use against windows Xp, doesn't that come under you know, Damaging control, Piracy terrorism, something along the lines, I'm sure theres a word for it i just can't think of it.
They aren't doing this specifically to make unsupported OSes less viable, it's just a side effect of getting bugs out there so they can be fixed for the OSes they do support.
There's a fair number of older programs that aren't very compatible with Windows 7. There are new versions that are, but upgrading the OS then requires multiple new software licenses. Then there's training for the new versions.
TL;DR: They consider the upgrade more expensive than the lost productivity.
Well worst case scenario they will just have to run XP on a virtual machine. Get some new hardware pop RED hat and VMware on them and hey presto securer computing. I wonder how many of thous older programs could be run on linux using wine.
I'm in the business and I've yet to meet a client reluctant to upgrade. Most business critical applications that businesses use are Win7 compliant and Windows 8 isn't to hard of an argument when you throw the Shell application on there.
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