Jody Thornton

But just because support has ended, doesn't mean copyright has expired. In fact, copyright statues are what allow Microsoft to do what it wishes with XP. Remember, it's their product, not ours. So if they had the technology to zap it from your machine and disallow you to run it, that should be legal, because they get to dictate HOW you use their product. You only use it under license. You never "own" a copy, or "own" the OS. So it matters none what patches are or aren't released and on what, and repeat whatever about WEPOS and SMB and blah blah - none of that matters at all.

I thought it meant "For Practical Purposes" but I guess I'm wrong eh?

I wasn't trying to start a fight. But copyright for XP still exists. By no means is it abandonware. If I install XP today then I still have to activate it.

But is it legal to use? (I'm guessing activation is bypassed right?)

Touche! You got me there

Are those blocked ads I see?

Not really. I was just curious that the updates install, WITHOUT me installing v4.61. I found a page recommending to install them on systems with v4.5 and v4.52. Oh well.

I just got through all of my updates. I find it odd that, Even though I only have .NET v4.5 installed with Windows 8, that v4.61 updates seem to install without complaint. If I don't want to upgrade to .NET v4.61, should I install those updates? Nice that the forum upgrade has reduced the spacing between the lines to a sane level again. (Thanks Xper)

It's kinda like how the Windows XP Forums here at xpforums.com cater to an old OS, however they recently had to upgrade to new forum software, which puts it out of the reach of many compatible browsers. I hear ya! Imagine if I were putting out a podcast about "getting back to simplicity and life - and telling people how to get out more and leave the PC and smartphone behind" ... but guess what? You still need a computer to listen

Looks lie Opera doesn't render anti-aliasing fonts properly, no?

I'm using Pale Moon 27.4 x64 and Nightly 57. Both work so far

I've done so as well. uBlock Origin is off.

Oh wow! This is some good news.

There was another Vista Forum at vistaforums.com. It's sleepy over there too, but you may have better luck discussing what has been here at MSFN. It's quite sleepy over there right now, but perhaps an MSFN takeover might inspire new life.

One more note on vistax64.com. Once a great forum, but the DM forums for Windows Vista and Windows 8 have shown little interest in the threads I created for using Server 2012 and Server 2008 updates. I created both of the threads here, and they've taken on their own life. In fact I've pretty much bowed aside.

I noticed that XP/Vista forums are gone, and the fonts is different. Also the heading is grey (similarly to when the page is half-rendered)

I'm really going to miss reading your Windows 8 and 10 posts Noel. Some thoughtful analysis there. I did save your Scheduled Tasks list. I know I'll forget to keep something I wanted here, I just know it Cheers

I take it August went well? Hope so I think what saddens me most about the end of the board is the history here. Even go and look at some of the early Windows XP threads (prior to 9/11 even). It was a different time with different people on the board here. And the oooodles of tips as well. It's so sad.

Well I'm at jodythornton@yandex.com. I can be reached there. The first thing I'm grabbing is NoelC's scheduled task tweaks. There are sooooooooooo many gems here.

Me too! Holy Crap!

Oh Gawd! I didn't know this. Holy Crap that's Saturday! This is AWFUL news! How did I miss it?

There doesn't appear to be any .NET updates.. Now I have a real treat in front of me. I had to perform a complete reinstall of Windows 8. I buggered up my profile folder. Oh well, I've been back in service for a week, but I've only updated up until January 2016. Sooooooo ..... out comes my USB drive full of updates from the past year and a half.....lol. Oh fun!

Shoot! I forgot yesterday was patch Tuesday. Oh well, I've been way too busy ....lol. But I'll bring my update results to the board later today or tomorrow.

However some pages on IE 10 are beginning to fail at properly rendering (not just useragent issues either). I may try it at some point.

Hmmm - I wonder if the same trick can bring IE 11 to Windows 8