Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by MagicPropmaker on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:03AM (#19918968)

Wow! Good for Microsoft. You don’t see Apple releasing patches for 15+ year old operating systems.

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Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by auiya on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:00PM (#19921405)

Apple makes all their OS releases free to their users, so there's much lower numbers of 15+ year old Apple OS's existing in the wild to begin with. If you'd said you don't see Apple releasing patches for 15+ year old computers, I'd be more inclined to agree.

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Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by zeusk on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @03:15PM (#19922715)

Heh, because Apple prefers to arbitrarily leave out support for their older systems on newer OS releases.

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Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by justin66 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:08AM (#19918998)

Neither did Microsoft, as far as I can tell:

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

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Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by Notre1 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:25AM (#19919676)

There are XP patches. I wonder if that CVE page is autogenerated and doesn't include out-of-support operating systems.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500705/customer-gu...

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