I think the issue here is that Microsoft has a patch already for those special s...

hsivonen · on May 13, 2017

The XP SP3 update was signed on 2017-02-11.

dogma1138 · on May 13, 2017

Now that's a PR problem.

irl_ · on May 13, 2017

What about all the other patches they're holding back? This can't be the only security issue they've only selectively distributed patches for.

my123 · on May 13, 2017

Yes, they hold back a lot of fixes. It's exceptional, a lot of unfixed flaws are still there. :)

easilyBored · on May 13, 2017

They'd be no incentive to upgrade otherwise.

XP is 16 years old! Microsoft is in a tough spot, this was a worldwide problem so they had no choice.

They should make the support contracts for old version quadruple in price for every year and offer incentives to upgrades. Better for them, more revenue and less bad press for MSFT.