<story><title>Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/06/13/june-2017-security-update-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DuskStar</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel that Microsoft providing these security updates long past XP&amp;#x27;s stated EOL date will only decrease security in the long run. After all, if any &amp;quot;big enough&amp;quot; vulnerability results in getting a patch anyways, why upgrade&amp;#x2F;firewall that old XP system running your equipment? And I&amp;#x27;d bet that people will expect the same treatment for Windows 7, too.&lt;p&gt;People never learn when disaster is narrowly averted. People learn when their decisions mean everything is on fire.</text></comment>
<story><title>Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/06/13/june-2017-security-update-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text>Kudos to Microsoft for doing this. Who else in the world is patching 16-year-old code well past it&amp;#x27;s EOL, for free?</text></comment>