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Do we need Windows patch legislation?

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@tiggity - in 2010, you could only get XP as a "downgrade" on new hardware, and only for Professional and Enterprise variants of Windows, so that excludes "your average punter".

Any business buying XP would have to order that extra, or they received a Windows 7/Windows 8 PC and an XP recovery CD. Either way, they had to know that XP wasn't the wisest option.

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