Microsoft officially ends all support for XP

In a blog post, Chutten, a Firefox dev said of its long-term commitment to the decrepit OS: "It required effort, and it required devoting resources to supporting XP well after Microsoft stopped doing so. It meant we couldn't do other things since we were busy with XP.

I just read above elsewhere in a artical. this is a blatant lie, there are at least one million people on this mud ball who would love to volunteer their time to FF xp development this is, like the record companys saying they could not find plastic to make records with when they wished to kill them off, which also killed music till
they learned to make a CD have HI fidelity, which it did not possess for years.

these are anti trust issues, the XP market is huge, very huge, whats hard is to convert a xp to
steal every dam thing you do to a MS data mining operation.
Which is the best thing 10 does, collect data. part of being a healthy adult is not being willing to sacrificing your person boundaries, FOR A CHEAP THRILL.

This subject.......so you can verbalize it...... is called-Pleasure vs Consequence........
 
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This whole NT 5.x update shutdown rumors are because Microsoft on July 19,2019 will start using SHA2 signatures and will stop using the old "insecure" SHA1 ones that were used over a decade for updates and since NT 5.x(2000,XP,Server 2003) doesn't support SHA2 updates signatures that MS will start soon using on Server 2008 SP2 and later( witch got an update to add support for them, probably for XP, Server 2003 too via Premium Support channel)
 
I just read above elsewhere in a artical. this is a blatant lie, there are at least one million people on this mud ball who would love to volunteer their time to FF xp development.....

Yah; that's, like, 0.0015 1/100ths of one percent of the 'mudball's' population.

Pretty 'small potatoes', Jim.
 
Well, okay, yeah; fair point! Looked at it in that light, it's NOT 'small potatoes' at all.

(Gawd, I hate it when folks turn insistently 'practical' and start quoting financial figures at me..... :D


Mike. ;)
 
Well, okay, yeah; fair point! Looked at it in that light, it's NOT 'small potatoes' at all.

(Gawd, I hate it when folks turn insistently 'practical' and start quoting financial figures at me..... :D


Mike. ;)

You're a practical sorta guy, so I don't expect shrill SJW-style emotionalism will do the job....facts for the factual!
 
Microsoft announced that the remaining version of Windows XP that was still receiving updates, POSReady 2009 ended yesterday.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4489209/end-of-support-for-windows-embedded-2009

Some of you had the registry hack that fooled MS into thinking your XP was POS 2009 were receiving security updates even after Microsoft stopped support of all desktop XP OSes.

To be honest I still have 2 laptops with XP Pro SP3 that haven't updated in close to a decade and yes, that are internet connected with no antivirus. Oh nooees! The big bad hackers are gonna get me!!!

Ok, these are kind of throw away machines that I don't use for anything important so if they ever did fall victim to malware, no big deal. They're not my main rigs.

Anybody here use XP for daily use?

The hackers can get whatś not there.
I run a couple of XP rigs but of course I don´t do credit card purchases or online banking on my XP PCs.
I don´t put anything on those XP machines that I wouldn´t post on a public bulletin board in the shopping mall.
Like everything else common sense rules the day.
 
If the hackers want to infect my most expensive XP PC machine (IBM G40 - that would fetch about $5.00 in scrap copper) with ransomware and encrypt the HDD ... be my guest. Hardly worth the effort.
 
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