Wrong.
100% wrong.
Who better to attack than folks whose guardians just walked away?
> Wrong. 100% wrong. Who better to attack than folks whose guardians just walked away?
XP and Vista/7 share 90% of their code. Every month, the bad guys will examine the patches Microsoft produces for Vista/7, determine where the code flaw was, and find that same flaw in XP. Then they will exploit it in XP.
By stopping security update support for XP, while the nearly identical code is still getting updates, Microsoft is handing the bad guys a freakin' map of XP flaws to exploit. THAT is the problem.