This is great! One must wonder what the Microsoft response will be. Even
as of August, XP's market share was well over 20%, dwarfing Win 8's
market share
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/01/windows-xps-market-share-fell-by-less-than-1-in-august/
One wonders if MS won't in the end be forced to make the support
official. With so many older computers out there which probably cannot
run 7 or 10, those users really don't have any other Windows choice.
At 05/10/2014 21:30, you wrote:
I run XP Pro 32 bit, applied the
registry patch as per the link below and am getting the updates on every
Patch Tuesday for two machines, one an HP, the other a Lenovo. No
problems so far. Good until 2019 according to the links below.
Windows XP fixes flaws for free if you turn PCs into CASH REGISTERS
German tinkerer finds a workaround for the XPocalypse
By Richard Chirgwin, 26 May 2014
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/26/german_tinkerer_gets_around_xpocalypse/
The site with the registry patch for XP Pro 32 bit and 64 bit are here
http://www.sebijk.com/community/board15-other/board73-tutorials/2985-getting-xp-updates/
On 06-Oct-14 6:24 AM, J R FOX wrote:
I don't know if this was ever
mentioned here, but I read something online a few months back that
requires confirmation, but it did sound intriguing. The gist of it
was that some companies had arranged for continued security patches for
XP on some sort of subscription basis. This was supposedly under
wraps and not being publicized. The point being that some companies
had a way to extend their (safe) use of XP. The question was, just
_where_ were these "Patches AFTER the Products Announced
End-of-Life" obtainable ? And the piece I read at least
implied that someone had cracked the availability for these -- for
all.