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Navy STILL pays Microsoft $9 million a year for WINDOWS XP | |
| 411 Offer Upgrade  User ID: 48254469  United States06/26/2015 06:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Digital mix guy User ID: 62891469 United States06/26/2015 06:01 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The U.S. Navy is still using Windows XP -- now 14 years old and defunct -- and it has to pay Microsoft $9 million to keep supporting it. Quoting: 411 Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) pulled support for Windows XP last year, and will no longer issue security updates to fix major holes in the software. Companies and agencies that are still running XP have the option of paying Microsoft for continued Windows XP updates, which provide an essential line of defense against hackers. In a statement, the Navy said it has a plan in place to upgrade its systems to a newer version of Windows. It expects to complete its upgrades by July 12, 2016. But there's a chance that it could take even longer. That's why the Navy's contract with Microsoft contains options to extend the deal through June 8, 2017. That would raise the amount the Navy will pay for Windows XP support to nearly $31 million. MORE.... [link to money.cnn.com] Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
| Dr.Hill User ID: 51344196 United States06/26/2015 06:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's actually nothing wrong with XP itself. In the short term I could see it being cheaper to pay the $9 million than to upgrade every system running XP. Other than the money there's nothing wrong with it. XP is capable of doing anything the new OS's are doing. With a few hacks and tweeks it's probably better. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69620001 France06/26/2015 06:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's actually nothing wrong with XP itself. Quoting: Dr.Hill In the short term I could see it being cheaper to pay the $9 million than to upgrade every system running XP. Other than the money there's nothing wrong with it. XP is capable of doing anything the new OS's are doing. With a few hacks and tweeks it's probably better. Actually its not capable. you can never get windows XP to recognize more than 3.5 GB of RAM. (even though Microsoft post the max is 4Gb. Most often it will recognize 3.25) There appears to be a disk size limitation when using 32bit windows xp as well. |
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| Dr.Hill User ID: 51344196 United States06/26/2015 06:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's actually nothing wrong with XP itself. Quoting: Dr.Hill In the short term I could see it being cheaper to pay the $9 million than to upgrade every system running XP. Other than the money there's nothing wrong with it. XP is capable of doing anything the new OS's are doing. With a few hacks and tweeks it's probably better. Actually its not capable. you can never get windows XP to recognize more than 3.5 GB of RAM. (even though Microsoft post the max is 4Gb. Most often it will recognize 3.25) There appears to be a disk size limitation when using 32bit windows xp as well. For $9 million dollars you could get XP to recognize just about anything...especially more RAM. But really that's beside the point. Apollo 11 only needed 64Kbyte of memory to get to the moon. It's what you do with what you have that matters and 3GB can go a long way. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 43394946 United States06/26/2015 07:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37574545 Canada06/26/2015 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The U.S. Navy is still using Windows XP -- now 14 years old and defunct -- and it has to pay Microsoft $9 million to keep supporting it. Quoting: 411 Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) pulled support for Windows XP last year, and will no longer issue security updates to fix major holes in the software. Companies and agencies that are still running XP have the option of paying Microsoft for continued Windows XP updates, which provide an essential line of defense against hackers. In a statement, the Navy said it has a plan in place to upgrade its systems to a newer version of Windows. It expects to complete its upgrades by July 12, 2016. But there's a chance that it could take even longer. That's why the Navy's contract with Microsoft contains options to extend the deal through June 8, 2017. That would raise the amount the Navy will pay for Windows XP support to nearly $31 million. MORE.... [link to money.cnn.com] lol thats top notch Navy systems for ya...Windows. lol |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1426001 United States06/26/2015 07:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| joinca User ID: 68583663 United States06/26/2015 07:38 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Windows lifecycle fact sheet: Client operating systems - Windows XP Latest update or service pack - Service Pack 3 End of mainstream support - April 14, 2009 End of extended support - April 8, 2014 Extended support—Microsoft will offer extended support for either a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the second successor product (two versions later) is released, whichever is longer. All of the facts are here: [link to windows.microsoft.com]  "The government will one day be corrupt and full of liars, and the people will flock to the one that tells the truth." - “Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.” - "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - "A Country with no Border, is not a country" -- Thomas Jefferson We MUST NEVER forget what Kamala Harris did to Justice Kavanaugh & his family! |
| Lol User ID: 48964441 United States06/26/2015 07:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm running Xp on this computer and still get security updates through Advanced System Care. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1426001 If you download ASC,chose advance setup and uncheck all bloatware. That should be done with any program you install. Just counting the minutes before someone hacks this guy lol |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69495690 United States06/26/2015 08:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Actually its not capable. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69620001 you can never get windows XP to recognize more than 3.5 GB of RAM. (even though Microsoft post the max is 4Gb. Most often it will recognize 3.25) There appears to be a disk size limitation when using 32bit windows xp as well. Actually XP x64 supports 128G of RAM, GPT partitions up to 256TB and 2 multi core processors. The whole < 4G RAM thing is a limit of all 32 bit operating systems. It's not a XP limitation. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 65590485 United States06/26/2015 09:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | fucking just fix xp for free fucking mircosoft what a shit company Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69428372 Why would you expect a company to continue pouring money into an obsolete OS? Any larger organization like the Navy is only still using XP because of legacy software that they refuse to update. Laziness shouldn't be put on the shoulders of M$. |
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| 411 (OP) User ID: 48254469 United States06/26/2015 10:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Microsoft sold it, is making a fortune from it and SHOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IT!!!!!! Quoting: Casey_ Jones they'll happily keep cashing the checks from Uncle Sap From his joint account with us tax payers. Funny thing is, I don't remember him being their when I opened mine. "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt |
| -GLP-Christian- User ID: 24463524  Sweden06/26/2015 10:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Microsoft sold it, is making a fortune from it and SHOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IT!!!!!! Quoting: Casey_ Jones they'll happily keep cashing the checks from Uncle Sap And the guy that is getting kickbacks from Microsoft for making this bs deal. Someone needs to do hard time for this. Get saved wretch: [link to biblebelievers.com] Everything you need to know about islam: [link to prophetofdoom.net] The Jihad Triangle: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] FRANCE IS TEH GHEY! |
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