Does Microsoft take its customers for fools?

Summary: Windows XP is not going away, but it's really going away, and it also makes security problems

THE news is already out that Microsoft lacks confidence in Vista 7's appeal, so it plans to offer Windows XP for quite some time to come. While this is widely covered at the moment (probably because of a report from Apple Insider), The Register is now announcing that "Microsoft [is] killing free XP support next week."

Microsoft will drop free support for handful of aging products next week, including consumer versions of Windows XP and Office 2003.

On April 14, the Redmond giant ends "mainstream" support for Office 2003 in addition to Windows XP Home and Professional. This means the software will no longer include no-charge incident support, warranty claims, design changes, and bug fixes not related to security.

So should it stay or should it go? The confusion continues and Microsoft too might be baffled. Microsoft has spent great effort and money buying good reviews for Vista 7 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], but it still provides escape routes to 2001.

In other news, Windows PCs are still being used to cause great trouble on the Internet, but those responsible can hardly be held accountable because they seem to be kids.

I just turned on the T.V and 60 minutes is about the new conficker worm. They think that the conficker worm is possibly being ran by a Russian gang consisting of 14 year olds.

This is not a rare phenomenon. Many other botnets were reportedly controlled by young teenagers. In response to this, says one person (sarcastically of course):

I say we should find out who these 14 year olds are and get their asses sent to jail....

Jokes aside, there is a great deal of turbulence on the Internet based on what we are told and there is evidence too.

DDoS Attacks on Web Hosts Continue

Over the past week, there have been a series of electronic attacks on major Internet web hosts and domain service providers. These distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have disrupted service for tens of thousands of web sites.

More information about Conficker can be found here. When Windows XP is no longer supported, then it become irresponsible to distribute it on new PCs. ⬆