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Will Microsoft turn off the Windows XP activation servers after support ends?
- sonnym 13y agoAlways remember this useful rule of thumb: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- gnu8 13y agoWhy bother doing any research when you can just claim the sky is falling and spam your blog on HN? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/51ca501d-1ccd-4978-9e03-7705e772755a/winxp-activation-after-42014-end-of-support http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/51c...
- comex 13y agoThat thread does not actually conclusively answer the question.
- frozenport 13y ago"The end of Windows XP support will not affect activation, but rather security updates and phone/online technical support." has been said many times for the last few years. I agree that this is a low quality blog post.
- comex 13y agoIt may have been said many times, but the linked thread itself does not contain any official statements and is not particularly conclusive.
- cypher543 13y agoThe simple answer is: "No." Why was an entire article needed for this?
- yuhong 13y agoIf the activation servers do gets shut off, I hope MS will release an update to disable activation or an utility to generate the confirmation ID from the installation ID.
- ck2 13y agoEven I wouldn't run Windows XP past December 2014. Install to exploit time would probably be under an hour. Trying to get a migration plan in place. I'm extremely comfortable with linux but not sure if I want to run it as my desktop.
- nitrogen 13y agoIf you have essential software or hardware that only works with XP, you could buy a cheap wired-only router for each of your XP systems to keep them isolated from the rest of your network (which a friend's skeezy laptop might be trying to exploit without her knowledge when she brings it over to collaborate on a project).