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Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Explorer Flaw

posted by janrinok on Saturday May 03 2014, @11:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-lingering-death dept.

Papas Fritas writes:

Sebastian Anthony writes that Microsoft is setting an awful precedent by caving and issuing a fix for Windows XP. "Yes, tardy governments and IT administrators can breathe a little easier for a little bit longer," writes Anthony, "and yes, your mom and dad are yet again safe to use their old Windows XP beige box. But to what end? It's just delaying the inevitable." This won't be the only vulnerability found in XP adds Dwight Silverman. "If Microsoft makes an exception now, what about the flaw found after this one? And the next? And the one after that, ad infinitum?" Even though Microsoft has released a patch for the IE flaw, and Windows XP is included, it's time to move on really. "I don't want to hear that tired "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" line. Hey, XP IS broke, and it will just get more so over time. Upgrade to a newer version of Windows, or switch to another modern operating system, such as OS X or Linux."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday May 06 2014, @03:08PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday May 06 2014, @03:08PM (#40168) Journal

    That is NOT the challenge, please quit posting that old Link from the Linux loony club, okay FOSSIe? That was from an article on CLI and I challenged them to try living without Bash. THAT IS NOT THE HAIRYFEET CHALLENGE but its sad that you should keep bringing that up since NO LINUX WILL PASS THAT as Linux is such a CLI heavy mess that doing a chmod to the shell so it can't run? will leave pretty much every Linux distro unbootable.

    Kinda sad really, like Windows 98 you are completely dependent on some ancient POS underpinning for the entire OS and without it? It all falls down. But why should this be surprising, Linux still uses .INI files and frankly .VXD drivers would be considered high tech to the 1970s UNIX shit that passes for drivers. honestly Linux isn't even up to WinXP level yet, you MIGHT be up to WinNT 4 but no further, after all Win2K could be taken from RTM to final patch without a single driver failure, something Linux can't do in half the time, hence the challenge.

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