Re: [ANN] Windows MSI Installer for PUC-Lua - Proof Of Concept

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 14 May 2017 at 16:32, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 2:44 PM Charles Heywood <vandor2012@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> To be blunt, I think it should fail on XP. XP reached end of the line
>> already and is no longer getting security updates, right?
>
> Correct. XP reached end of life in April 2014, and thus no longer receives
> security updates.

Microsoft (exceptionally?) just released a security patch for XP
against the WannaCry ransomware worm:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-security/is-the-patch-for-wannacry-available-for-xp/23be85a8-5410-4ab1-bbd9-938476d840cb

...so in a sense that's an admission that it is still a relevant
platform in practical terms.

-- Hisham