XPost: alt.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , DK   
    writes:   
   >Will *any* Windows/Microsoft Update work on XP?   
   >   
   >Will old updates and fixes still be available online or not?   
   >   
   >E.g., if I have a computer that was offline since 2009, would it be   
   >possible to update it to 2014 in May 2014?   
   >   
   >Also, if I continue running XP, would I be able to get Office 2007   
   >or .NET security fixes on it?   
   >   
   >Strange that such a basic info is hard to find...   
   >   
   >Any ideas?   
      
   Current thinking is that the *update* servers will remain online for a   
   while at least (and the activation ones); how long is anybody's guess,   
   but taking a sort of average of what people are thinking, "at least a   
   year" seems to be popular.   
      
   The info. is hard to find as MS - quite understandably IMO - don't want   
   to commit themselves. They _have_ specifically said that _definition_   
   updates for MSE (though not updates to MSE itself, or even MSE itself at   
   all) will continue to be not only available but generated, until IIRR   
   2015.   
      
   You _should_, therefore, be able to get the updates (including O2007 and   
   .net, inasmuch as those are available for XP at all). The one problem   
   with your old PC is that the current version of Windows Update (well,   
   the servers that serve it) won't work with IE6; I'm not sure when the   
   later versions of IE came out, but if that was after 2009 (or you hadn't   
   updated it), you'd have to get IE8 separately - which you can still do,   
   it's just not automatic. (I'm not sure if the current WU works with IE7   
   - I think not.)   
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