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Friendly Reminder From Blizzard Regarding Windows XP Support

Friendly Reminder From Blizzard Regarding Windows XP Support - Upgrade or lose access to our games. #videogames #pcgaming #blizzard

While Microsoft has released several new operating systems over the past 7 years, there has been little reason to migrate over to them. Unless you wanted access to DirectX 11 or 12, most users of Windows XP still prefer them to the Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 OSes. If you’re someone who enjoys Blizzard’s titles such as World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the…

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Shona Ghosh writes at PC Pro that the final deadline for Windows XP support in April 2014 will act as the starting pistol for developing new exploits as hackers reverse-engineer patches issued for Windows 7 or Windows 8 to scout for XP vulnerabilities. “The very first month that Microsoft releases security updates for supported versions of Windows, attackers will reverse-engineer those updates, find the vulnerabilities and test Windows XP to see if it shares [them],” says Tim Rains, the director of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group. Microsoft says that XP shared 30 security holes with Windows 7 and Windows 8 between July 2012 and July 2013. Gregg Keizer says that if a major chunk of the world’s PCs remains tied to XP, as seems certain, Microsoft will face an unenviable choice: Stick to plan and put millions of customers at risk from malware infection, or backtrack from long-standing policies and proclamations.