[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <003d5299$0$30966$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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 ?

Considering how few people actually keep theie MS Software up to date,
would anyone even notice the difference?

bill

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