My suspicion is they still had the testing infrastructure and team still in place so it was easy enough and close enough to EOL date to toss in. MY guess is that going forward the testing infrastructure for XP will be dismantled and team will be dispersing so that MS will save massive amounts of time with the reduced testing load. From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 15:21:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Out of Band for IE, and they are going to provide a XP patch To: [email protected]
No, they are not setting a precedence, nor should they. This issue is both big enough in scope, and near enough to the EOL data, that they can do this now. Not advisable going forward. People (especially organizations) have had enough time to deal with a very public, and oft announced EOL schedule. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market… On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]> wrote: The question is: Are they setting a precedence? I actually hope they are; I think they should continue to fix critical flaws in XP for as long as the OS is used by a large part of the community. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> , 5/1/2014 9:27 AM: http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2014/05/01/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2963983.aspx "we have made the decision to issue a security update for XP" Heads up, EZ Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization [email protected] Work:401-255-2497 This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you.
