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The article was written by the founder of winrumors.com so I would imagine he is aware of that fact.
by Strom 15y ago
The article was written by the founder of winrumors.com so I would imagine he is aware of that fact.
- acqq 15y agoI've tried to read the article starting from your assumption, and I admit it can be read so, but it still doesn't give the clear message: Windows XP is not mentioned even once in the article, even if it's a "stumbling point" for Microsoft -- they were able to produce an IE 9 for it just as Google can make a Chrome, Mozilla can make Firefox and Opera can make Opera which run on Windows XP. Instead, the highest IE you can have on Windows XP is IE 8, and as far as I know still before this today already "old" IE is installed it insists to run what Microsoft calls "Windows Genuine Advantage Check" which makes problem on a lot of "acceptably" installed Windows XP computers from the perspective of the time they were installed: only during the life of the Windows XP Microsoft decided to "change the rules" of what's "acceptable" installation for them. Therefore administrators who don't want to reinstall Windows XP on the existing old computers ("if it works don't touch it") of course decide to block the updates which would break (in the "your software is not genuine" way) the computers which will anyway be replaced in some reasonable time -- but not exactly at the time Microsoft would like, which is right now. That's the real story behind the statistics presented, at least regarding the Windows XP, the OS mentioned in the title and nowhere in the text of the article.