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Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows XP, and although the operating system reached the end of support in 2014, way too many people continue to use the insecure version of Windows. Why are people still stuck on XP? While Vista felt like an experimental release for a beta version, Windows 7 was an excellent and refined release, and so was Windows 10.
Windows XP reached its end of life on April 8th, 2014, and even though it no longer receives security updates, more people use XP than Windows Vista, according to StatCounter and BleepingComputer's website visitor stats. According to StatCounter, Windows XP is used by 0.84% of the people running Windows, doubling Windows Vista's current usag.
Microsoft's long-lived operating system Windows XP-that still powers over 1% of all laptops and desktop computers worldwide-has had its source code leaked online, allegedly, along with Windows Server 2003. The source code for Microsoft's 19-year-old operating system was published as a torrent file on notorious bulletin board website 4chan, and it's for the very first time when source code for Microsoft's operating system has been leaked to the public.
If the reports are to be believed, someone has just leaked a mega-torrent of Microsoft source code going all the way back to MS-DOS 6. Intriguingly, Microsoft has officially released old-school source code before, such as when the source of MS-DOS 1.25 and Word 1.1a were made public a few years back.
The source code for Windows XP and other elderly Microsoft operating systems appears to have leaked online as the mega-corp's Ignite developer shindig came to an end. The source of the alleged code leak is unclear; a torrent for the archive popped up on internet armpit 4chan and contains what appears to be Windows XP Service Pack 1, as well as some other past-their-sell-by-date flavours of Microsoft's greatest hits.
Someone has leaked what appear to be source code files for the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. The source code files for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 appear to have been made public for the first time.
A critical crown court IT system and thousands of laptops used by the UK's Ministry of Justice run on Microsoft's obsolete and unsupported Windows XP operating system, The Register can reveal. As recently as March 2019, the ministry was paying hundreds of thousands of pounds for a VPN to support 2,000 Windows XP laptop users - news that comes as the department admits that a critical court IT system is also running on XP boxen.
As end of support for the still-popular Windows 7 draws near, risks of unpatched operating systems are likely to be a significant security concern in the near future.
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