Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, the last supported operating system based on Windows XP, stopped being supported as of Monday.<\/p>\n
TechRepublic reports<\/strong><\/a> that although Windows XP stopped being supported five years ago, the use of POSReady 2009 allowed users to receive security updates through the use of a registry hack.<\/p>\n While Microsoft recommended that users shouldn’t implement this registry hack – saying that it does not “fully protect Windows XP customers” – it made no attempt to prevent the hack’s use.<\/p>\n POSReady 2009 is designed specifically for point-of-sale (POS) devices, offering a smaller performance footprint and specific functionality for POS terminals.<\/p>\n If one counts POSReady, this brings over 17 years of Windows XP support to an end – making it the longest-running version of Windows ever.<\/p>\n Other versions of Windows XP have also been discontinued in recent months, such as Windows Embedded Standard 2009, which lost support on 8 January 2019.<\/p>\n Users have until July to implement the last POSReady 2009 patches.<\/p>\n Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, the last supported operating system based on Windows XP, stopped being supported as of Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":203166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,807,58494,4806],"class_list":["post-302394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-posready-2009","tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302404,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302394\/revisions\/302404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: You can now try out Microsoft\u2019s Chromium Edge browser<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"