According to research firm NetApplications, Windows XP still accounts for more than 26 percent of the desktops in use.Ĭhilds said that Microsoft encourages Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers to update Internet Explorer to version 11, the latest release, if they haven't yet. The decision is a notable reversal for Microsoft, which had ended support only weeks ago for Windows XP and the versions of Internet Explorer that run on it. "We have made the decision to issue a security update for Windows XP users," he said, noting that "Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft" and that Redmond "continue to encourage customers to migrate to a modern operating system, such as Windows 7 or 8.1." Of the decision to fix Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, the only versions of the browser that still run on the 12-year-old Windows XP, Childs was terse. "If you're unsure if you have automatic updates, or you haven't enabled Automatic Update, now is the time." "The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because protections will be downloaded and installed automatically," Dustin Childs of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, the company's security group, said in a blog post. Nevertheless, Microsoft's patch today fixes all affected versions of the browser. Security firm FireEye, which discovered the previously unknown and unfixed flaw five days ago, said it saw a vulnerability used to target financial and defense institutions on Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11.
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