By a workaround, Windows XP users who have no right to updates, the next five years still security updates for the legacy operating system received. While formal support for XP has expired.
Betanews made Monday as the first report of the workaround, which consists of a simple registerhack. Thus, it is possible to install updates for Windows Embedded Industry in 2009, which is based on Windows XP with Service Pack 3. The securityupdates for that version are practically identical to those Microsoft to a limited extent, still come out for the outdated operating system from 2001.
According to Betanews does the workaround only for 32-bit versions of Windows XP, but there are also ways found to the updates for 64-bit systems. It is possible that the trick may not have a long life ahead of us, because Microsoft any time can take action.
That Windows XP users thanks to the registerhack still updates for the operating system can ingest, is remarkable. Microsoft posted in april, the end-of-life-stamp on XP, which support for the system formally ended and there for regular users, no more updates appear. Only paying users if the government have there till 2019 is still right on. In the Netherlands there are still a million XP users.
It is likely that Microsoft is not happy with the workaround. The software giant remains there since april insist that Windows XP retirement is and that users of the internet should avoid. Since Microsoft has stopped the support for private users, the operating system is more than ever a popular target of attackers.
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