Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only

Fortunato_NC writes "Microsoft has decided that future IE updates, including those related to security, will only be available to customers using Windows XP. This news.com article has the complete scoop. A choice quote: 'Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.' This should provide a huge boost to Mozilla and other alternative browser backers."

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Here's the thing

[TrippTDF]

M$ has gotten so big, they need to start functioning as the government for the internet. (I know that sounds scary, but seeing as how they control the software that controls the majority of PCs, they are in the drivers seat) and they need to start acting like one... If the US government said that it was no longer going to support states that were not as beneficial tothe whole as others, I'm pretty sure we'd be pretty pissed as a country... or maybe they are doing this, I don't know.

Re:TROLL ALERT! WINDOWS TROLL ALERT!!!

[Master of Transhuman]

What part of THIS don't you get?

'Microsoft affirmed that its recent security improvements to IE would be made available only to XP users.

"We do not have plans to deliver Windows XP SP2 enhancements for Windows 2000 or other older versions of Windows," the company said in a statement. "The most secure version of Windows today is Windows XP with SP2. We recommend that customers upgrade to XP and SP2 as quickly as possible."'

Windows troll alert!!!

Off by 1,000 times

[Futurepower(R)]

That should be, "Nobody will ever need more than 640,000 patches."

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