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How to Apply MS Updates to Windows XP until 2019

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday May 18 2014, @12:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the Prolonging-the-Inevitable dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

Over at MSFN Forums, user 'harkaz' has described a simple 3-step method of applying newer Microsoft updates to Windows XP operating systems.
 
He says: "The constraints are entirely artificial. Porting is easy as 1-2-3 ... So Windows XP can have semi-official support until 2019!"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday May 18 2014, @07:46PM

    by tathra (3367) on Sunday May 18 2014, @07:46PM (#44980)

    Some of you guys have no concept of what poverty is like, apparently. $300 may be easily affordable to me and chump change for you, but for a vast number of people, three hundred dollars is half a month's income.

    What about the environmental impact of millions of PCs becoming purposely obsoleted?

    and some of you guys have no concept of just how fast computer prices job, and what the environmental impact would be of buying a used or simply old computer to keep it from going into a landfill.

    nowhere did i say, "man, i can't believe these people are too poor to spend $300!" i was pointing out that 2 years ago, this thing was already pretty cheap as far as computers go, so today it'd probably be $50-100. and hell, even if thats not possible, why are you letting these people off the hook for being irresponsible and unable to save? since when cant people set aside $20 a week, or hell even each month, for a new computer? because its "not essential"? then they shouldn't have a computer in the first place since its so "non-essential". if they bought a computer that ran XP, i have little doubt they spent a lot more at that time than it would cost to buy a computer running Win7 today.

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  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday May 18 2014, @07:49PM

    by tathra (3367) on Sunday May 18 2014, @07:49PM (#44981)

    ugh, lack of caffeine.

    "just how fast computer prices job" should be "just how fast computer prices drop". how the hell did i mess up that bad.