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• Microsoft working on fix for nasty NTFS corruption bug

  

  18 January 2021, 11:11

  Bug can be triggered by user simply opening a folder with specially crafted shortcut.

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• Microsoft Windows XP source code leaked online

  

  28 September 2020, 12:30

  Mainstream support for this aged OS ended in 2014 so it probably won't be a boon to hackers.

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• Microsoft is ending support for its classic Internet Games

  

  11 July 2019, 12:14

  Internet games services will end on 31st July for XP and ME, and on 22nd Jan 2020 for Windows 7.

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• Microsoft releases worm fix for older versions of Windows

  

  15 May 2019, 11:21

  It hopes to stem WannaCry-style attacks propagating via the horde of older systems.

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• Valve ends Windows XP and Vista Steam support

  

  2 January 2019, 10:11

  And there is a little over a year left of extended support for Windows 7 from Microsoft.

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• Steam to drop support for Windows XP and Vista next year

  

  14 June 2018, 12:41

  Meanwhile, the Steam beta gets new chat functionality. And Steam will launch in China.

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• Windows 9 to be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users

  

  29 September 2014, 10:05

  Reveals the president of Microsoft Indonesia.

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• Registry hack enables Windows XP security updates until 2019

  

  27 May 2014, 11:12

  Registry setting will trick Windows Update into thinking the system is Windows XP POSReady.

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• Microsoft surprised by Chinese Windows 8 ban

  

  21 May 2014, 11:45

  China has banned all government purchases of Windows 8 due to security concerns.

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• Microsoft announces emergency patch for IE's zero-day flaw

  

  2 May 2014, 09:15

  Windows XP will also receive security update, despite its end of support last month.

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