Excepting an unexpected patch in the after that four weeks, users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 have seen their previous security update for Internet Explorer.

Even though Microsoft has told Windows XP SP2 users quite a few periods this year that it will leave 2004 operating system on July, client might not understand that they will also not obtain some Internet Explorer security updates next date.

Microsoft definite that clients running Windows XP SP2 will get no IE6, IE7 or IE8 patches after July. The corporation said there is no mechanism for presenting IE-only patches to people using Windows XP SP2.

"Clients will require to install Windows XP SP3 in arrange to influence the extensive support, which will run during April 2014," a Microsoft presenter said in an e-mail respond to questions.

"There is no differentiation for XP SP2 customers running IE."
Perform of connecting browser scrap to operating systems' support existence cycles is a long-standing Microsoft policy.

Though, it means that clients yet depending on Windows XP SP2 will be at danger for developing of any IE susceptibility that Microsoft patches after July.

According to data from Qualys, about half of all enterprise computers running Windows XP were yet using SP2 as of late last month.