Any chance it was XP embedded edition? That is still available & shipping.
Yep, MS in fact will support Windows Embedded Standard 2009 based on XP past normal XP end of support. MS is able to do this because they distribute the patches using a private extranet.
Yea, end of sales do not matter under the MS support lifecycle. What matters is when this version was released and when the next version was released. MS guarantees Mainstream Support for at least 5 years after this version was released and at least two years after the next version was released and Extended Support for five years afterwards. This is how the April 2009 date for end of Mainstream Support for XP was calculated (Vista was released in January 2007).
On Win2000, US lifted export restrictions only one month after Win2000 RTMed in Dec 1999, so MS had to ship the high encryption pack on a floppy disk inside the Win2000 package in addition to making it available for download. SP2 finally built it in.
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Not to mention many of the evil things Microsoft did came from the Gates era anyway (my favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, BTW).
Yea, looks like Sandy Bridge EX is cancelled:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/ivy-bridge-ep-and-ex-coming-up-in-a-year-s-time--the-multi-socket-platform-heaven/15488.html
Any chance it was XP embedded edition? That is still available & shipping.
Yep, MS in fact will support Windows Embedded Standard 2009 based on XP past normal XP end of support. MS is able to do this because they distribute the patches using a private extranet.
I am not excusing the ruling.
Yea, end of sales do not matter under the MS support lifecycle. What matters is when this version was released and when the next version was released. MS guarantees Mainstream Support for at least 5 years after this version was released and at least two years after the next version was released and Extended Support for five years afterwards. This is how the April 2009 date for end of Mainstream Support for XP was calculated (Vista was released in January 2007).
And to be honest class action suits do have their problems.
Yea, Congress is more interesting as that is who makes the laws.
Or tried to. This attempt led to a lawsuit from HP.
Yea I know. I hope the SOPA protests have improved this a bit.
Well, he was hired as a product manager.
this is like saying Windows costs Microsoft a nickel to make because they just had to stamp a DVD.
In this case it is worse because software is just a set of easily copyable bits, which is the reason for all the anti-piracy protections.
AFAIK the original exploit targets XP where it is NOT sandboxed.
http://sriramk.com/unsolicitedyahoo.html
(Yea, I am on HN too)
It is not 2014-04-01 anymore, they moved it up to the next Patch Tuesday.
And Server 2003 ends support a bit later (in July 2015).
AFAIK IE9 will be supported until 2020 too.
AFAIK Stuxnet did target Win2000 and was *discovered* within days of end of support of Win2000.
My favorites are the ten years old XHTML and DOM level 2.
On Win2000, US lifted export restrictions only one month after Win2000 RTMed in Dec 1999, so MS had to ship the high encryption pack on a floppy disk inside the Win2000 package in addition to making it available for download. SP2 finally built it in.
Reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011013
Of course, I really hope the former will happen, not the latter.
In fact, Java 7 Update 6 that added full support for Mac OS X was only released a few weeks ago.
http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html
I think it does offer binary compatibility, but the driver has to be specifically written for it.
Actually it was WDM that was jury-rigged by emulating some of the NT kernel APIs.