Windows XP
Has anyone else heard that Windows XP is reaching it's "end of life" on April 8th 2014. What I read was that Microsoft will no longer support WXP from that date on. This is the link http://www.komand...
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Chris Bryant writes “It's all well and good to say XP will still work- and it will, but I would not use it to connect to the Internet.
Microsoft will, in effect, be giving hackers a roadmap on vulnerabilities in XP every time they issue a patch for 7 or 8- better than half of the vulnerabilities also exist in XP, except they will be unpatched. Kind of a big "kick me" sign.”
:R
Not really.
The Windows 4.x kernel was in use through ME, which was released long after NT.
NT was more a contemporary of Windows 95. 95, 95 Second Release, 98, 98SE, and ME were all running the Win4.x kernel series.
NT itself was built upon OS/2 which in-turn was built upon QNX.
NT kernels were used in 2k, XP, 2k3, and somewhat in Vista.
Win7 uses a microkernel of some sort (read, NOT THE SAME AS XP Kernel), which was running next to NT style kernel in Vista (hence making Vista's drivers usable in Win7) BUT you can’t use XP drivers for Win7 or for the most part even Vista.
Basically Windows 7 security “holes” are NOT NECESSARILY the same as XP, in fact none of the “updates” between XP, Vista, W7 ever addressed the SAME “exploits”.
In fact with new OS releases typically you end up with a WHOLE LOT MORE bugs and security issues that NEVER existed in the previous versions.
The ONLY thing in common was the fact that MS RELEASED “updates” for XP, Vista, 7, 8 on the same day (Tue of each week)…
Chris, I think you better have a talk with the governments, banks, hospitals and pretty much every large company on this earth to let them know they must scrap BILLIONS of dollars worth of PCs running XP which are in full use AND CONNECTED to the Internet as of this moment.
There ARE a lot of applications which do not run on Vista/W7/8 in use and it takes considerable money and manpower to update/replace these applications and some just are not replaceable..
MS (and Intel) most likely appreciates your help in getting people to kick their working XP PCs to the curb filling up yet more land fills with electronic scrap..
People panic and they make money selling new OS and hardware… It’s the new American wasteful way of life.
Microsoft will, in effect, be giving hackers a roadmap on vulnerabilities in XP every time they issue a patch for 7 or 8- better than half of the vulnerabilities also exist in XP, except they will be unpatched. Kind of a big "kick me" sign.”
:R
Not really.
The Windows 4.x kernel was in use through ME, which was released long after NT.
NT was more a contemporary of Windows 95. 95, 95 Second Release, 98, 98SE, and ME were all running the Win4.x kernel series.
NT itself was built upon OS/2 which in-turn was built upon QNX.
NT kernels were used in 2k, XP, 2k3, and somewhat in Vista.
Win7 uses a microkernel of some sort (read, NOT THE SAME AS XP Kernel), which was running next to NT style kernel in Vista (hence making Vista's drivers usable in Win7) BUT you can’t use XP drivers for Win7 or for the most part even Vista.
Basically Windows 7 security “holes” are NOT NECESSARILY the same as XP, in fact none of the “updates” between XP, Vista, W7 ever addressed the SAME “exploits”.
In fact with new OS releases typically you end up with a WHOLE LOT MORE bugs and security issues that NEVER existed in the previous versions.
The ONLY thing in common was the fact that MS RELEASED “updates” for XP, Vista, 7, 8 on the same day (Tue of each week)…
Chris, I think you better have a talk with the governments, banks, hospitals and pretty much every large company on this earth to let them know they must scrap BILLIONS of dollars worth of PCs running XP which are in full use AND CONNECTED to the Internet as of this moment.
There ARE a lot of applications which do not run on Vista/W7/8 in use and it takes considerable money and manpower to update/replace these applications and some just are not replaceable..
MS (and Intel) most likely appreciates your help in getting people to kick their working XP PCs to the curb filling up yet more land fills with electronic scrap..
People panic and they make money selling new OS and hardware… It’s the new American wasteful way of life.
