The media, the press, and the industry have cried wolf too many times to take their dire warnings seriously right away. Knowing that this is how the world works, I choose to take a more laid back “believe it when I see it” kind of approach. Why I rarely panicĪs with most news these days it seems like headlines and stories are full of hyperbole and sensationalism to get our attention and our clicks.Īnd of course companies with an agenda – like Microsoft’s wanting people to move off of XP – often participate, or at least look the other way as the over-the-top predictions are made. In fact, aside from one bug in Internet Explorer that prompted Microsoft to actually release a patch for Windows XP after the deadline anyway 1, all’s been pretty quiet on the XP front. Heck, there was even a conspiracy theory that Microsoft was holding on to fixes until after the deadline to leave XP even more vulnerable. The speculation (clearly in hindsight, pure speculation) was that hackers were saving up known exploits to unleash on the world shortly after the deadline passed. Of course, prior to the deadline there were all sorts of dire warnings that The End was near.
Windows XP’s end-of-support date came and went. As I was writing this week’s article about whether or not unsupported software presents a security risk, something dawned on me.
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