Microsoft updates Windows. Even XP - Computer Point

Redmond anticipates the contents of the next Patch Tuesday and warned: these are the last days for the update to Windows XP. The future, however, is already lined up at the starting blocks – and knows of the past

Rome – is shortly on the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft is careful to anticipate the salient features of the update included in the first round of Patch Tuesday 2014: Windows is the “star” of the new patch Tuesday, and for Windows XP also means the ancient, increasingly on Sunset Boulevard. Forced.

Advance Notification published by Redmond contains 4 security bulletins, all labeled with the level of danger “important”, and no critic: the first bulletin is devoted to Word, and the third to Windows 7 SP1 (and Server 2008 R2 SP1 ) and fourth in all supported versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX. Of particular interest is finally Bulletin No. 2, designed to correct a vulnerability in Windows XP (Service Pack 3) recently risen to prominence.

The forced retirement of XP is scheduled for April 8, and Microsoft Do you know that by that time also the version of Security Essentials specification for the historic (or prehistoric?) OS will cease to exist. The message is clear, and comes directly from Microsoft: Windows XP is no longer secure, users need to update your system with something newer and up to date.

In fact, Microsoft is also committed to updating Windows, and waiting for Threshold (ie Windows 8.2 or even Windows 9) and the return of the “real” start menu you begin to see something on the front 8.1 Windows Update 1: updating for users of OS tiles will once again be free, say the first leak , will be finalized in March and distributed to the public (and RTM) in April. The news? At the moment nothing to report apart from a few screenshots indistinguishable from Windows 8.1.

Alfonso Maruccia