Windows XP support extended to 2019, unintentionally :P

ubersonic · 27 May 2014 at 13:33

In typical fashion Microsoft's attempt to kill off Windows XP has taken a turn for the worse as it turns out that by simply changing a registry tag so it appears as a different version of XP (Point of Sale 2009) it will continue to receive updates until 2019, and the is nothing Microsoft can do (besides cutting support for PoS 2k9 early).

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/70229-registry-hack-enables-windows-xp-security-updates-2019/

snips86x · 27 May 2014 at 13:36

Brilliant!!

Organisation all over the world are now saving money by not upgrading. For those who've already made the massive investment to upgrade are themselves for it!!

ubersonic · 27 May 2014 at 13:41

snips86x said:
Brilliant!!

Organisation all over the world are now saving money by not upgrading. For those who've already made the massive investment to upgrade are themselves for it!!

Yeah lol, thank god the NHS haven't gone and given Microsoft like £5 million for suppor- oh... lol

snips86x · 27 May 2014 at 13:44

haha - public sector will always be the worst. They need that security (or do they? keeps getting lost on trains). I know my place is going through a Win 7 migration project which has taken a lot of time & resource.

ubersonic · 27 May 2014 at 14:08

I find it amazing that the purple shirt brigade are trying like mad to push W8 on people at the moment, then they take them to their XP terminal to process the sale XD

wildest_jjk · 27 May 2014 at 14:11

This surely won't work???? Haha

KIA · 27 May 2014 at 18:24

Haha. Awesome workaround for home users.

Cooners · 27 May 2014 at 18:50

Temping to try it out with one or two customer machines, even if it only works for a month or two. Stubborn gits won't move no matter what we tell them, they just reply it costs too much to change and they like XP so at least this would keep them a bit protected.

bledd · 27 May 2014 at 22:38

Dangerous

Embedded doesn't work the same way as normal XP. Better off using very strict firewall rules and a non admin user account if you must stick with XP.

marc2003 · 27 May 2014 at 23:49

ubersonic said:
Yeah lol, thank god the NHS haven't gone and given Microsoft like £5 million for suppor- oh... lol

i'd rather they spend the money on a properly supported product. no one in their right mind would try this hack on a mission critical enterprise network. trying to fool the update servers into thinking your machines are running a different OS is plain stupid.

Essexraptor · 28 May 2014 at 20:07

marc2003 said:
i'd rather they spend the money on a properly supported product. no one in their right mind would try this hack on a mission critical enterprise network. trying to fool the update servers into thinking your machines are running a different OS is plain stupid.

If each site is not running a security firewall at POE that would be mad or just a plain lazy site administrator