[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

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 ?

Microsoft would probably issue a patch for it.  The likelihood of a 
major vulnerability being found at this late date is not too great.