Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP 759
CWmike writes "Microsoft says it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4. 'We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible,' said security program manager Adrian Stone during Microsoft's monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000 and XP. 'An update for Windows XP will not be made available,' Stone and fellow program manager Jerry Bryant said during the Q&A portion of the Webcast (transcript here). Last Tuesday, Microsoft said that it wouldn't be patching Windows 2000 because creating a fix was 'infeasible.'"
Infeasible? (Score:5, Funny)
That's unpossible!
Re:Question (Score:5, Funny)
You are forgetting that code ages overtime. I think it has something to do with the proteins and atoms. That is why they have to make new versions.
My job is to apply "The Formula" (Score:5, Funny)
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 miles per hour. The rear differential locks up. The car crushes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now: do we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field (A), multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X...
If X is less that the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
Whatever. I'll just keep using XP until it crashes-and-burns, and then I'll toss this PC into the trash and get a new $300 PC at walmart with Windows 8 already-installed. That's my upgrade path.
BTW anyone want to buy a Windows 95 laptop? It's harmless (mostly).
"Infeasible": Translation.. (Score:5, Funny)
...we lost the source code, we kept it in Microsoft Source Safe and it ate it.
Re:XP/2003 (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Yeah, right (Score:4, Funny)
So a bit like the old saying, "That's like buying a dog, and then having to spend your time barking to scare off any potential burglars."
Re:Yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
The U.S. Navy's and Marine Corp's NMCI computing infrastructure is all Windows XP.
I questioned the Navy's IT management for years, failing to see the long term wisdom behind the program and thinking it was a pork spending program awarded to political insiders. But, I'm forced to admit NMCI has been tremendously successful at bringing productivity to a near stand still. Patching computers no one can use is hardly even necessary.
As a bonus the Navy has an inexhaustible supply of boat anchors!
Absolutely brilliant.
Re:Wouldn't SynAttackProtect work here? (on 2000 t (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's why I like open source (Score:3, Funny)
No, it's "infeasible," Microsoft said so! Are you calling them a liar !?
Re:Infeasible? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Yeah, right (Score:3, Funny)
BTW anyone want to buy a Windows 95 laptop? It's harmless (mostly).
Bah, I am holding out for a Windows 3.1 laptop.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
I have a friend who just got hired into group A working for the DOD. His job is to track how the stimulus money gets spent in group B. Actually his entire groups job is to track that money. Guess what group B's job is? Track how the money gets spent in group A. It's so ludicrous that you can't make this stuff up.
It's white collar welfare and has been for years. It's the advanced version of dig a hole and fill it in.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:3, Funny)
I say we send the Marines to storm the MS campus.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:3, Funny)
Would you expect a car manufacturer to offer a 10 year warranty on all of their cars?
No, but I expect them to honor the warranty they already offered. Microsoft said that they would provide critical security updates to Windows XP until 2014. This is a pretty critical bug, but they decided to downgrade it so they don't have to fix it.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:4, Funny)
Two blonde girls were working for the county public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind her and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one girl digging a hole, the other girl filling it in again.
An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn't understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, "I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don't get it... why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"
The hole digger wiped her brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-person team. But today the girl who plants the trees called in sick."