[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Steven Underwood wrote:
>> I also drive a 9 year old car that is out of warranty, but it keeps running 
>> as well.
> 
> The car manufacturers still issue prodyct recalls/fixes when flaws that
> endanger lives are encountered and this applies to all owners of the
> model/year for which this fix is required, warrantee or not.
> 
> In the context of XP, this means that Microsoft will NOT issue mandatory
> patches if a major flaw is encountered.
> 
> So, say a virus finds another flaw in XP and threathens to infect 50
> billion computers still running XP. Will Microsoft really be able to NOT
> issue a patch for it ?

End of mainstream support does not mean end of security updates.

Security updates for XP will continue until August 4th 2014.

And when that date come I would expect that MS would sit and
look at the people getting effected and say "we told you". Because
that is what happen with Windows 98 and ME.

Arne