Comments on: Microsoft Confirms Windows XP is Not — and Never Will be — Secure http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73541 Roy Schestowitz Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:14:43 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73541 Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I8JtJsyJB4&NR=1&feature=fvwp" title="Interview: Torvalds talks role in Linux today" rel="nofollow">this video from 2007</a> (when Vista was released). Around the 5th minute Linus speaks about how Vista is mostly hype. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4I8JtJsyJB4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4I8JtJsyJB4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Watch this video from 2007 (when Vista was released). Around the 5th minute Linus speaks about how Vista is mostly hype.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73540 Needs Sunlight Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:02:19 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73540 Forgot overpriced in the description above. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1088699765289 There are 49 other states not counting the UK. :P Forgot overpriced in the description above.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1088699765289

There are 49 other states not counting the UK. :P

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73539 Needs Sunlight Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:58:38 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73539 Q: When is Windows exactly like Windows? A: When the $NEXT_VERSION is for sale. Q: When is Windows not like Windows? A: When the $NEXT_VERSION is for sale. M$ <i>always</i> allows criticism of it's oldest supported version when trying to drum up sales of the $NEXT_VERSION. In this case it's trying to peddle Vista7 and stem of further upgrades to Ubuntu. Of course it is different now than in the past. In the past, M$ embarrassed its executives and its programmers by releasing terribly poor, insecure and unstable software. But this time, honest, they've learned there lesson and the company will recover its reputation with <strike>Windows 3.0 <strike>Windows 3.1</strike> <strike>Windows 3.11</strike> <strike>Windows NT</strike> <strike>Windows 95</strike> <strike>Windows 98</strike> <strike>Windows NT 4.0</strike> <strike>Windows 2000 (NT5)</strike> <strike>Windows Millennium Edition (Me)</strike> <strike>Windows XP</strike> <strike>Windows XP SP2</strike> <strike>Windows Server 2003</strike> <strike>Windows Home Server</strike> <strike>Windows Vista</strike> <strike>Windows Server 2008</strike> <strike>Windows Vista 7</strike> <strike>Windows Vista 8</strike> Windows Vista ng ... Not! http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/08/windows-users-charlie-browns-of.html Q: When is Windows exactly like Windows?
A: When the $NEXT_VERSION is for sale.

Q: When is Windows not like Windows?
A: When the $NEXT_VERSION is for sale.

M$ always allows criticism of it’s oldest supported version when trying to drum up sales of the $NEXT_VERSION. In this case it’s trying to peddle Vista7 and stem of further upgrades to Ubuntu.

Of course it is different now than in the past. In the past, M$ embarrassed its executives and its programmers by releasing terribly poor, insecure and unstable software. But this time, honest, they’ve learned there lesson and the company will recover its reputation with
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows NT
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000 (NT5)
Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
Windows XP
Windows XP SP2
Windows Server 2003
Windows Home Server
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista 7
Windows Vista 8
Windows Vista ng

… Not!

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/08/windows-users-charlie-browns-of.html

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73534 Yuhong Bao Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:39:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73534 "Against this particular vulnerability only!" To clarify, I mean that, yes, MS will not patch this vulnerability, but that do not change the fact that MS will still try their best to patch XP against new security holes until the end of Extended Support in 2014, just like how MS did with NT 4 until end of 2004 and 98/ME until mid-2006. “Against this particular vulnerability only!”
To clarify, I mean that, yes, MS will not patch this vulnerability, but that do not change the fact that MS will still try their best to patch XP against new security holes until the end of Extended Support in 2014, just like how MS did with NT 4 until end of 2004 and 98/ME until mid-2006.

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73533 Yuhong Bao Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:35:20 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73533 I was specifically talking about the SMB 2.0 protocol, not Vista in general. "XP is never patched again" Not true, see my previous comment. I was specifically talking about the SMB 2.0 protocol, not Vista in general.
“XP is never patched again”
Not true, see my previous comment.

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73532 twitter Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:29:13 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73532 Ah Boa, you never "go that far." Anyway, what's a softie to do? They no longer even have the illusion of network security now. If XP is never patched again and Vista is knocked off the M$ network, where does that leave the Enterprise? None of them bothered to run Vista and won't bother running Windows 7 either. So they are left with a very broken M$ infrastructure. Ah Boa, you never “go that far.”

Anyway, what’s a softie to do? They no longer even have the illusion of network security now. If XP is never patched again and Vista is knocked off the M$ network, where does that leave the Enterprise? None of them bothered to run Vista and won’t bother running Windows 7 either. So they are left with a very broken M$ infrastructure.

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73531 Yuhong Bao Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:54:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73531 "There’s no real reason for SMB2, (Server Message Block 2), a Microsoft network file and print-sharing protocol that ships with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, to exist." Well, I would not go that far, but the merits and disadvantages of the SMB 2.0 protocol itself is another topic altogether. “There’s no real reason for SMB2, (Server Message Block 2), a Microsoft network file and print-sharing protocol that ships with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, to exist.”
Well, I would not go that far, but the merits and disadvantages of the SMB 2.0 protocol itself is another topic altogether.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73530 Roy Schestowitz Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:47:33 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73530 NT 4... Microsoft is not a basis of comparison for Microsoft. :-p NT 4…

Microsoft is not a basis of comparison for Microsoft. :-p

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/windows-xp-security-eol/comment-page-1/#comment-73529 Yuhong Bao Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:43:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18727#comment-73529 "Microsoft Confirms Windows XP is Not — and Never Will be — Secure" Against this particular vulnerability only! Besides, this isn't unusual. Look at the last months of security bulletins before MS discontinued NT 4 support in the end of 2004, some of them say NT 4 will be never be patched for the same reason. “Microsoft Confirms Windows XP is Not — and Never Will be — Secure”
Against this particular vulnerability only! Besides, this isn’t unusual. Look at the last months of security bulletins before MS discontinued NT 4 support in the end of 2004, some of them say NT 4 will be never be patched for the same reason.

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