| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 136749 | 2014-04-10 11:06:00 | First XP updates since support ceased? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1372385 | 2014-04-10 11:06:00 | Hi Team Early this afternoon I received an XP 'new updates' alert from MS, so I downloaded, installed, and rebooted as instructed. This is in keeping with the updates I still receive for W2K. I also got an update for Word 2007, which I have not and never have had installed, I do own the disk though. It seems that XP support possibly remains alive and well, as some members had predicted might occur. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1372386 | 2014-04-10 11:47:00 | Or XP is so slow that it only just noticed the last update? ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1372387 | 2014-04-10 13:34:00 | They might not be from Microsoft .... :D | fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1372388 | 2014-04-10 13:52:00 | It's probably the update that adds the notification that support for xp has ceased. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1372389 | 2014-04-10 14:26:00 | No, Wednesday was the final day for Windows XP security patches. Noting unusual here, this was well notified to be going end of support. | nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1372390 | 2014-04-11 01:34:00 | It's probably the update that adds the notification that support for xp has ceased. Nah....... I'm not that thick. It came in well after the notification that support had ceased and my MSE Icon in the system tray had gone (permanently) from green to red to emphasise the point. Since my W2K box still gets security updates, and somebody mentioned receiving updates to even older Windows OS versions, it is not unreasonable to presume that MS wants people to think that it is stopping in order to move XP users on to something new (not necessarily better) but they'd be mad to upset the huge XP installed base in China, that could lead to revenge attacks from a few million Chinese hackers. :D I'll wait and see if any more come in. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1372391 | 2014-04-11 01:36:00 | Probably not updates for XP itself, it'll still get updates for .NET if you have a recent version installed. (At a guess...) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1372392 | 2014-04-12 00:54:00 | Nah....... I'm not that thick. It came in well after the notification that support had ceased and my MSE Icon in the system tray had gone (permanently) from green to red to emphasise the point. Since my W2K box still gets security updates, and somebody mentioned receiving updates to even older Windows OS versions, it is not unreasonable to presume that MS wants people to think that it is stopping in order to move XP users on to something new (not necessarily better) but they'd be mad to upset the huge XP installed base in China, that could lead to revenge attacks from a few million Chinese hackers. :D I'll wait and see if any more come in. Cheers Billy 8-{) Curious why you still have Windows 2000? Windows 2000 security updates stopped on July 13, 2010 The installed base of XP in China don't install updates anyway, just like they don't pay for their pirated software |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1372393 | 2014-04-12 01:09:00 | The only doped support for Win XP has been Java 8 which is Visa and later now.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1372394 | 2014-04-12 11:34:00 | I also got updates yesterday on 2 XP pc's that are set on Automatic windows updates and are used daily. KB890830 -- msrt april KB2934207 -- windows xp end of support notification KB2936068-IE8 KB2922229-security update hmm? |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||