Stephen Samuel, Been a Computer programmer and admin since the early '70s.
Answered May 28, 2017 · Author has 1.9K answers and 1.4M answer views
“A fixed XP would be a broken XP.”.
It’s not going to happen. As Ian Macdonald explained, When XP was being designed and written, Microsoft was only giving lip service to security. To give you a bit of an understanding of this:
Around 2000, Microsoft had a huge PR blitz about how Microsoft was no longer treating security as a PR issue. If that doesn’t make you giggle, then think about it for a while longer.
While XP was being designed, one security expert got up in arms about one of the design decisions being made around XP. Microsoft’s response was to fly him to Redmond where a series of high executives came in and explained to him how there were so many other security problems in XP, that the issue he was raising was just water under the bridge.
Many of the security problems with XP are so deeply embedded in the basic design of the operating system that, if you fixed all of them, what you would be left with would be so far from what XP is now that it would not be backwards compatible. This would break the entire purpose of such a project which would be to build a secure version of XP that legacy programs could run on cleanly and securely without having to be rewritten or even recompiled.
In a phrase: “A fixed XP would be a broken XP.”.
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