> 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.
Ah. Oh dear.
Exactly correct, which is why I laugh at all the luddites here on FR who insist on continuing to run XP claiming they'll never give it up, or "from my cold dead hands."
Sooner or later a kernel exploit/virus exploit/malware exploit is going to take over their machine and they'll lose their data. They'll continue to blame Microsoft for not continuing to support a 12 year old OS that's required security patches to plug thousands and thousands of exploits which Microsoft developed and provided freely for that same 12 year period.
It took Microsoft 12 YEARS to come to the conclusion that they'd likely be patching one of the most INSECURE OS' out there for another 12 years and into infinity for what a POS the Windows XP kernel is. And yet some people want to continue down that path? Yikes. Grow up.