Security Fixes for XP Extended

[DaveB]

You think? I can't recall Windows ever doing this before

If you are running Security Essentials it does. They will be providing the signature feed to other commercial AV vendors as well.

[Platypus]

They will tell you that there is a virus, and possibly even stop it executing

You think? I can't recall Windows ever doing this before

[DaveB]

BBC News - Microsoft extends virus warnings for Windows XP to 2015

XP Security fixes will be rolled out until July 2015 rather than April 2014.

Not quite. They will tell you that there is a virus, and possibly even stop it executing, but they are not going to patch the vulnerability that the virus is exploiting.

[DaveB]

IE6 seems to be the biggest issue, so if they'd just release IE6 for Windows 7 then a lot of the problems would go away.

IE6 won't run on Windows 7, that a big part of the problem. You can install an IE 6 Application compatibility VPC, but it's a lot of work for limited functionality and probably won't work with a lot of the more underhanded hacks used to get IE 6 web apps working.

And the extend virus signature support is really only a sop to the whiners. Yes you will now know you have a potential virus problem, but there still won't be a fix available for the vulnerability it exploits.

[VectraMan]

IE6 seems to be the biggest issue, so if they'd just release IE6 for Windows 7 then a lot of the problems would go away.

[yasockie]

When they decide to go for a desktop O/S upgrade, there will be a huge gravy train pulling into Contractor Central, Platform 1

This.

Sticking to XP is bad for M$ (no new revenue, bad publicity), bad for IT - complaints for lusers (7 minute boot time FFS) and bad for users who have to run both antique OS and antique software on top of it (and therefore hate M$), bad for contractors too - no upgrade gravy train.

[TestMangler]

Nope - an acknowledgement that it's still 30% of the market, so trying to force people to upgrade when there are other alternatives is silly.

And since some software that enterprises use only runs on XP, it's not a move that clients want.

^^ This.

In 2005, I was at a large banking clientco that discovered some 11,000 bespoke apps which had to be tested and ported. Most were web apps designed around IE6. They're still using most of them today.

When they decide to go for a desktop O/S upgrade, there will be a huge gravy train pulling into Contractor Central, Platform 1

[DirtyDog]

Yet another concession to the lazy IT depts still stuck on XP.
I was given a 'new" laptop still running windows XP at the beginning of the month.
It is 2014 FFS

Nope - an acknowledgement that it's still 30% of the market, so trying to force people to upgrade when there are other alternatives is silly.

And since some software that enterprises use only runs on XP, it's not a move that clients want.

[TestMangler]

Yet another concession to the lazy IT depts still stuck on XP.
I was given a 'new" laptop still running windows XP at the beginning of the month.
It is 2014 FFS

Care to take a stab at why that might be ??

[yasockie]

Yet another concession to the lazy IT depts still stuck on XP.
I was given a 'new" laptop still running windows XP at the beginning of the month.
It is 2014 FFS

[DirtyDog]

BBC News - Microsoft extends virus warnings for Windows XP to 2015

XP Security fixes will be rolled out until July 2015 rather than April 2014.