Who knows, Microsoft may be able to extract yet another buck from its aging multi-multi-billion-dollar cash cow - the operating system that, more than any other product, made Microsoft what it is today. Even after XP goes EOL, there will be people and companies willing to pay a reasonable amount to keep their systems on life support. I believe Microsoft should reconsider its decision and continue to support MSE on XP systems by offering inexpensive subscriptions (say, $29 per year) for patches and MSE updates for XP. This new revelation takes the sting to a new level of hurt: Microsoft is pulling the rug out from under XP's MSE entirely. We've all been anticipating, with no small amount of dread, Microsoft's threat to stop updating MSE malware definitions for Windows XP on April 8. Although it isn't clear when the decision was made, the official end-of-support Web page now states, 'Microsoft will also stop providing Microsoft Security Essentials for download on Windows XP on this date.' clcid=0x409&arch=x86&eng=0.0.0.0&avdelta=0.0.0.0&asdelta=0.0.0.With three months to go until April 8 and the end of support for Windows XP, Microsoft has dropped another nasty surprise. Is this link as posted by member MaterSystem still currently working to manually update it? after I changed it to only MMPC - now using regedit won't let me edit the value anymore. 'FallbackOrder'='MicrosoftUpdateServer|MMPC' Am I the only one having trouble again with MSE after the last POSReady updates? I noticed the reg key above went back to its default: (Attention, it should only make users who are familiar with permissions!) If the first two options are unwanted, the following registry entry for MSE may be changed, where updating under MSE Update will be limited again. Is there an updater for MSE for download and update the definition ( see here).ģ. For Winows XP there are no regular updates for MSE at Microsoft Update, except the POSReady key is entered in the registry ( see here).Ģ.

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