To: TChad
"Anyone using the software will now be at risk of cyberattacks from criminals exploiting current and future security flaws and vulnerabilities, ..." Horse puckey and scare-mongering. There are still more than 25 million Windows XP PCs visible on the Internet (a little more than 1% of all users).
Time has proved that MS is incapable of killing off its own OSes. What does finally kill them is the withdrawal of supporting technologies, particularly browsers, Java, and (formerly) Shockwave.
56 posted on
01/10/2023 8:20:55 PM PST by
Paal Gulli
(The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing.)
To: Paal Gulli
Time has proved that MS is incapable of killing off its own OSes. What does finally kill them is the withdrawal of supporting technologies, particularly browsers, Java, and (formerly) Shockwave.
It took Apple 10 years to kill off Flash, and they REALLY tried. Of course, QuickTime itself was its own special world of hurt.
60 posted on
01/10/2023 8:26:21 PM PST by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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