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>And Microsoft, by dropping security support for older OSs, aren't helping the problem. I disagree with this. The only way to get users off defunct OSes, and

• tptacek 16y ago
  It's also a total red herring. Microsoft spends serious dollars shoring up the security of Windows XP, a 10-year-old operating system. What kind of security support do you think OS X 10.0 customers get? Stross' comment here is probably sparked by news stories about Microsoft dropping support for Win2k and XPSP2. But the solution to the XPSP2 problem is simply to upgrade to XPSP3. I'm not sure, but I think that if you had auto-update on (and you're crazy if you don't), you got that automatically. If you're deployed permanently on Win2K, nothing Microsoft does is going to make you secure. Win2K lives in places where access to the same Ethernet collision domain is already game-over for an attacker. It is simply unreasonable to suggest that Microsoft is making people less secure by encouraging them to get off operating systems that were first released to QA in 1998. NB: as always, I have to post the disclaimer that while we've done work for MSFT in the past, our entire company is standardized on Apple hardware and Apple operating systems.