Microsoft kills off XP SP1 support

Upgrade or die

By Nick Farrell

Wed Oct 11 2006, 10:32

SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft has announced that it will no longer support Windows XP Service Pack 1 and SP1a.

According to ZDNet, this means that anyone who has not upgraded will have to shift to Service Pack 2 if they wish to continue to receive upgrades.

SP1 first shipped in September 2002 and so is getting pretty old and smelly. It was replaced by SP2 in September 2004.

The Vole has been culling support for several of its elderly products lately. In July, Microsoft finally got rid of Windows 98 and ME support.

If there are punters still using SP1 then chances are the hackers have the operating system in their sights as we speak.

The smart money is on a trojan that sniffs out old SP1 machines and exploits vulnerabilities that will be fixed with SP2.

More here. µ

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