On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Sean Greenslade <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 04:42:19PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > > On 18/07/14 14:42, Aziz Saleh wrote: > > > It is not. Windows itself has ended supporting Windows XP (You are > > > currently unprotected from new vulnerabilities), why do you expect the > same > > > from Zend? > > > > Microsoft require a large sum of money to restore working systems, > > something that may simply be not available to many sites. > > Blackmail used to be a crime so I don't know when they legalised it? > > Sorry, what? Exactly who is being blackmailed here? > > > You are only unprotected from the complaints M$ send. If you use the > > correct supporting software, much of which is free, then there is not > > a problem and ones machines are still protected. > > This is patently false. As with all operating systems, Windows XP has > numerous bugs and vulnerabilities in its core code. Things like buffer > overflow vulns, weaknesses in authentication systems, etc. Things that > 3rd party software cannot protect. Without constant attention and > patching, a system will be vulnerable to many, many exploits. > > Thus, it is in the interests of both Microsoft and Windows software > vendors (like Zend) to discourage the use of systems that are no longer > secure to use, _especially_ in the case of internet-facing server > systems. > > --Sean > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Not that much offtopic, enjoy: https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#escape-from-xp
