I’ve been hearing predictions for a year that after Windows XP went out of support, it would only be a matter of time before people started backporting patches to it.
As it turns out, they don’t have to. Windows XP has a close relative, Windows Embedded, that doesn’t go out of support until 2019. The people who are fretting over XP-based ATMs and cash registers don’t realize many of those devices–those built in 2009 or later–are running Windows Embedded. It looks just like XP, works just like XP, and installs a lot like XP, but it’s still supported. The bigger question is whether the people running it are patching it, but that problem has existed ever since Microsoft released Windows Update.
Well, with a simple registry hack, it’s possible to make Windows XP look like Windows Embedded and keep getting updates. Microsoft quickly issued a statement, and some people are predicting Microsoft will quickly close that loophole.
I’m not so sure about that. Read More »Windows XP rises from the dead… accidentally