Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP
Although it is probably good for the companies still using windows XP to receive those updates, I do not think updating windows xp was such a smart move because now those companies do not need to update once again and keep running outdated windows machines.<p>If Microsoft did not provide this update for older OSes, I believe more people would update because they simply had to. Smaller hacks might not be enough for the manager of those machines to allocate resources to update, but this hack might have been just fatale enough for them to update those machines.<p>And we should all expect to see such a hack again. This is not a one in a century thing. Such costly hacks could easily happen a few times a year.