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They already are. The U.K. and Dutch governments have already paid Microsoft millions apiece for continued support.
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No, they paid to get the "idea" of support - it merely exists on paper.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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People wanted the same for Windows 2000. Nowt chance of that. MS want people to buy Win 8.
I'm sure if MS extended XP support for another 2 years there would still be a double digits market share. At some point they have to stop.
But I thought the AV vendors had some special read-only access to the OS anyway? Or is that a myth?
Kevin
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Tutt wrote: Under the leading understanding of existing antitrust doctrine, if Windows XP were real property—a photocopier, for example—the law would obligate Microsoft to help other companies create an aftermarket for Windows XP support
Explain the man that "real" has nothing to do with it. And no, even if it were a real betamax, there would not be any obligation.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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We re-wrote the entire query execution engine to improve scalability, and took our first step in building a sophisticated query planner by introducing index intersection. We’ve made the codebase easier to maintain, and made it easier to implement new features. Now with performance? (Not a great marketing team there)
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Office for iPad has seen 12 million downloads to date, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the decision to pull the trigger and release the suite, according to the company. Not sure why it's news - did people think it got approved and shipped in two months?
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Shortsighted for Microsoft to decide to release that info. They should have let Nadella have all the glory and kudos so he can build his position as leader.
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If you believed the rumor mill, MS's Apple software division had it working a few years ago; with only Balmer's refusal standing in the way of it shipping.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Not sure why it's news - did people think it got approved and shipped in two months?
The unwashed masses seem to believe that software can be written overnight. So the answer to your question is probably yes.
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I'll bet the source of the news was Steve Ballmer sitting in front on his laptop in a bathrobe sending an anonymous tip that hey, that Ballmer guy really wasn't so bad!
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Microsoft has just released a warning that the new Windows 8.1 Update may keep some computers from scanning Windows Update for more patches. Just in case you haven't installed it yet
Like. I. just. did.
Thanks guys.
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So - taken together with this earlier news[^] means we're damned if we do, damned if we don't?
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That post came after this one. So it would be 'later' unless you have a wrong URL.
EDIT: I think you meant this one[^].
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Pretty much, yeah. Although I'm assuming they'll have it fixed within 5 weeks.
TTFN - Kent
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I've just installed 8.1 and can run Windows Update fine. There is a new update to install already.
What is broken is the links to the KB articles detailing the patches.
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Good news, maybe they've fixed it already. Thanks for letting us know.
TTFN - Kent
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NeverJustHere wrote: I've just installed 8.1 ...
But is that the wonderfully named "Windows 8.1 Update 1", or just plain "Windows 8.1"?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I did mean Windows 8.1 Update 1.
Agree - stupid names. All for trying to keep phone/tablet/desktop the same. Why not just move them all to 8.2?
Oh, and when installing the update, there is no need for M$ to put a link to their store on my taskbar. First thing that was removed. Otherwise, they don't seem to have stuffed too much up.
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If your company wants to write a smartphone or tablet application, it should consider these do-it-yourself options notable for their simplicity. Just in case the boss says, "We need a mobile app by EOW"
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After the release of Windows XP in 2001 and for a few years that followed, Internet Explorer 6 was the biggest, most important browser in the world. And for longer, it has been the buggy browser that's overstayed its welcome. "Nah, it's just pining for the fjords"
Sorry, I know we overuse that sketch, but I couldn't help myself.
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What? I thought Navigator was. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Personally I would have put Safari on the podium, but then someone whispered, "Quirks mode" into my ear. 
TTFN - Kent
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When it was first released it was my favourite browser.  Not that there were many options then. Netscape and Opera, which may still have been ad-free or paid at that time.
Kevin
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"Failure to install this Update will prevent Windows Update from patching your system with any future updates starting with updates released in May 2014," said Michael Hildebrand of Microsoft in a Monday blog. That should pique interest in Windows 8.1
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Lovely.
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