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Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP
CWmike writes "Microsoft says it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4. 'We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible,' said security program manager Adrian Stone during Microsoft's monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000 and XP. 'An update for Windows XP will not be made available,' Stone and fellow program manager Jerry Bryant said during the Q&A portion of the Webcast (transcript here). Last Tuesday, Microsoft said that it wouldn't be patching Windows 2000 because creating a fix was 'infeasible.'"
That's unpossible!
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You are forgetting that code ages overtime. I think it has something to do with the proteins and atoms. That is why they have to make new versions.
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 miles per hour. The rear differential locks up. The car crushes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now: do we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field (A), multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X...
If X is less that the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
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Whatever. I'll just keep using XP until it crashes-and-burns, and then I'll toss this PC into the trash and get a new $300 PC at walmart with Windows 8 already-installed. That's my upgrade path.
BTW anyone want to buy a Windows 95 laptop? It's harmless (mostly).
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
...we lost the source code, we kept it in Microsoft Source Safe and it ate it.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
The U.S. Navy's and Marine Corp's NMCI computing infrastructure is all Windows XP.
I questioned the Navy's IT management for years, failing to see the long term wisdom behind the program and thinking it was a pork spending program awarded to political insiders. But, I'm forced to admit NMCI has been tremendously successful at bringing productivity to a near stand still. Patching computers no one can use is hardly even necessary.
As a bonus the Navy has an inexhaustible supply of boat anchors!
Absolutely brilliant.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
I have a friend who just got hired into group A working for the DOD. His job is to track how the stimulus money gets spent in group B. Actually his entire groups job is to track that money. Guess what group B's job is? Track how the money gets spent in group A. It's so ludicrous that you can't make this stuff up.
It's white collar welfare and has been for years. It's the advanced version of dig a hole and fill it in.