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Yesterday Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. While many users and even businesses continue to cling to the venerable OS there will be no further security updates and even with active anti-virus and malware protection, many users will be left unsecure reports the LA Times and various other news outlets.
There are some exceptions for the right customers.
The UK and Dutch governments have paid Microsoft multiple millions to extend support for Windows XP past the 8 April cutoff date.
The UK extension cost £5.5m but is only valid for a year, after which public-sector users will have to be moved to newer software.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 09 2014, @05:03PM
The taxpayers should be doing a better job managing their government, especially when their government is happily sending all their money to some convicted monopolist in a foreign country. In some countries, mismanaged governments result in people demonstrating in the streets and calling for new elections.
With the implicit threat that they'll cease support and leave them naked in the rain if they stop paying in. What else is that but extortion?
So it's better to just leave them naked in the rain, to avoid being called an "extortionist"? That's some odd logic you have there.
This whole "extortion" thing is ridiculous. If your car goes out of warranty, but you're allowed to buy an "extended warranty" afterwards, is that extortion? Or is it only extortion if you think the price is too high? No one is obligated to fix your car after the warranty period has expired (some safety defects excluded, but even here there's a time limit; the government isn't going to help you with your 60s car and its numerous safety defects, or probably even a 90s car). It's not "extortion" if some company (even the original mfgr) offers an extended warranty for your older used car.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Wednesday April 09 2014, @05:41PM
Yes they definitely should be doing a better job. Which goes back to my original post in that it's disappointing that through all the arrogance and "mine is not as bad as yours" mentality this has happened. It makes them look like tools as I said earlier. But I can't simply put all the blame on them for this because Microsoft knows pretty damn well what they're doing because it was part of their own strategy. And you're trying way too hard to shove car analogies into this thread. It makes your argument nonsensical and makes it seem as if you misunderstood mine. Do you really think this is benevolence on Microsoft's part? If you do I'm going to have to say that you're mighty naive. This isn't like an extended warranty at all and if you insist it is you need to look at some of the history of Microsoft. No, it's extortion and the more of these posts I see the more that is becoming clear to me. The UK and Dutch government has plenty of well deserved blame placed on them but it's rather unreasonable to say that it's all because of their stupidity.
Now can you stop knocking down strawmen and look at the spirit of my original post please? You'll note that it was more about the respective governments being tools and how it doesn't bode well for anyone and you pretty much devolved it into some other thread of discussion that I was probably stupid to take the bait of. I will say one thing though. I wish this was like an extended warranty. Because then people would rarely buy them and then once they realize how strict the criteria is to actually use that warranty would stop buying into it and the company giving it altogether, and that would be awesome.
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