Microsoft: You know we said NO MORE XP PATCHES? Well ... Microsoft has released patches for the latest critical security vulnerability plaguing Internet Explorer, including for Windows XP – despite months of claiming that it would never release another patch for the outdated OS past April 8 of this year. According to a blog post by Microsoft's general manager of Trustworthy …
WRONG. That would only be right if that millions paid covered that one patch for that one specific product which happened to be the patch that was released.
Clearly it isn't, and clearly there's a ton of patches for XP that are and will be continually created specifically for the people who paid for it.
This specific patch is just one that was freely released at Microsoft's discretion - the rest (of which there will be many for XP this month) won't be.
Because it represents a total rip-off for the people who paid for extended support, such as our own government.
If they keep doing this, those organisations will be wondering why they spent any money in the first place, and should be battering down Microsoft's door for their cash.
It's also a poor decision because it will keep people thinking that XP will get important patches anyway. Complacency needs to end.
Nope. It was one patch to address one specific problem in a specific product (IE) that coincidentally ended it's free support a few weeks ago. It's hardly a rip-off because there'll be a ton of security updates for XP from now till (potentially according to the paid-for contracts) next year, just only for the people who paid for it.
So calm down.
"I don't understand how software companies get away with releasing software that is full of security holes, not just one or two vulnerabilities but hundreds.What a sad joke it is that people pay good money for what is essentially partiallly functioning garbage."
Yep - modern software often really sucks. For instance Linux has had over 900 security vulnerabilities in the kernel alone, OS-X is on over 2,000 and SUSE 10 is on over 4,000!
For comparison, Windows XP is approaching 700 known vulnerabilities.
I happen to be familiar with Linux, and 900 security vulnerabilities seems to me a bit off the mark. Care to link to your sources?
Nah, I think that you're exposing your ignorance here. SUSE 10 may have or have not 4000 vulnerabilities, but if the kernel had 900, and SUSE is using the same kernel, you're saying that the whole lot of software shipped with SUSE 10 had what, 3100 vulnerabilities?
Go scare somewhere else.
One morning in a galaxy far, far away:
"Yes, let us abandon the most popular desktop OS we've ever sold in such a way as to leave us open to stories forevermore on how we walked away from a trainwreck in the interest of sales.
Wait, wouldn't that get us seen in a bad light by the only people who don't hate us now? I mean seriously, have you used windows 8? What a big pile of stinking OH HELLO BOSS. What's that? New policy? I'll get right on it!"
So 30% of all Windows desktops run XP according to my reading of the posts here. These machines work perfectly well and/or the software/OS/browser is locked in - which is why they are still in use - but we are supposed to just dump them? It's insane.
Imagine if car manufacturers behaved this way. Oh, sorry sir we can't be arsed to make the parts for your model any more, even though 30% of our customers drive them. Go and sling it in the dump and then have a look around the showroom.
I've got my popcorn ready for the MASSIVE botnet offensive that Microsoft will create. It will cause misery for everyone who upgraded as well as those that didn't.
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