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How to Apply MS Updates to Windows XP until 2019

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday May 18 2014, @12:15AM   
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!"

• Re:let it die (to be reborn?)Re:let it die (to be reborn?) (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday May 19 2014, @06:50PM

  by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday May 19 2014, @06:50PM (#45328) Journal

  That is corporate which often has mission critical applications that require an older OS and therefor is far from typical. Please note the "IT staff" part which indicates this is for large orgs which will most often have site licensing which means they can use any OS from MSFT ever created regardless of support. I don't know if its still the case but when I was working corp a few years back and had an MSDN I could download and use Win 3.11 WFW if I so chose, the images and tools were provided. As for the third that stands for "custom factory images" which if you are buying large amounts (typically 500+) you can have a custom image with the OS of your choice and drivers premade by Dell.

  So this isn't for the street, its for large orgs and the consulting firms that support them. I have been there myself, I had to keep NOS (new,old stock) desktops with Win2K until 2012 for a graphics design house which was using custom imaging tools that required Win2K and the farthest I have had to go back was building a DOS 3 CNC out of my first gamer rig (we builders are packrats and if it works we are loathe to toss) in 2007 for a lumber mill that had an $80K computerized lathe that wouldn't run on anything else. Just as I doubt you would consider what I was doing "proof of continued sales" even though I was functioning as an OEM and VAR so too does these large orgs buying XP boxes for backwards compatibility not reflect what was being sold on the street.

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• Re:let it die (to be reborn?)(Score: 1) by Hawkwind on Monday May 19 2014, @11:52PM

  by Hawkwind (3531) on Monday May 19 2014, @11:52PM (#45436)

  Cool - thanks!

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