Perspective: Microsoft risks security reputation ruin by retiring XP

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246837/Perspective_Microsoft_risks_security_reputation_ruin_by_retiring_XP

By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
March 9, 2014

A decade ago, Microsoft kicked off SDL, or Security Development Lifecycle, 
a now-widely-adopted process designed to bake security into software, and 
began building what has become an unmatched reputation in how a vendor 
writes more secure code, keeps customers informed about security issues, 
and backs that up with regular patches.

But the Redmond, Wash. company, which just touted SDL's 10-year history 
with a flashy, anecdote-filled online presentation, seems willing to risk 
torching that hard-won reputation by pulling the plug on Windows XP.

Microsoft plans to ship the final public patches for Windows XP on April 
8. After that, it will not deliver fixes for security vulnerabilities it 
and others find in the 13-year-old operating system.

The result, even Microsoft has said, could be devastating. Last October, 
the company said that after April 8, Windows XP would face a future where 
machines are infected at a rate 66% higher than before patches stopped.

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