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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 sjames on Sunday May 18 2014, @10:46PM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday May 18 2014, @10:46PM (#45021) Journal

    Third party license restrictions makes sense, but what does it matter if portions of the code are being used in the current version? I doubt anyone will use that to make a Win8 clone.

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