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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.'"
You make a good point. Microsoft's other main competitor, Apple, doesn't provide service updates for anything older than 10.5 (2007). Why should MS support anything older than that?
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Sales of Win7 are much higher than Vista; where they are at now, it took Vista weeks to get to.
Well from a security perspective, thanks to Microsoft's attitude to XP, buying XP has turned into like me buying a dog, and then I have to waste my time with updating decent firewalls just because Microsoft don't want to update their software to support us, because they use that a means to force and manipulate us into buying Windows 7.
... and not keep forcing obsolescence onto us all as a means to extort more money out of us all).
So much for them creating a product I want (I want them to support XP and produce more products for XP
But then Microsoft has the power to extort many people even though we all see, know and hate their tactics against us all.
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If you read the article you'll see systems with SP2 or SP3 are unaffected:
"By default, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 do not have a listening service configured in the client firewall and are therefore not affected by this vulnerability"
Dont let the sensionalist summaries fool you. Afterall this is slashdot. Everything is spun a certain way. Shame on you editors.
stop pointing out stuff like that. We don't RTFA!
"Sales of Win7 are much higher than Vista; where they are at now, it took Vista weeks to get to."
Score:+1, Funny, since Win7 has not been released so there are no sales
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