On 2021 Sep 16, Billy Mynews Ferrell wrote
(in article <si10j8$6hp$
1...@dont-email.me>):
I have two multi-seat licenses for XP, one a ‘business’ and one an
‘education’. Both still work to reinstall from the DVD or the ISO.
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> As I Said Before
> You Can Installed
> But You Can't Update It
My versions were SP3, the ISOs were patched to the latest patches before MS
dropped support. I don’t need to update them.
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> For All Windows XP Update
> Links at All Dead
That depends. You could still get fully patched XP installs from Imagine
(formerly Dreamspark); MS parks every single OS from DOS 6 there, for
educational purposes. That’s all versions of DOS from 3, Win 1-3.x, Win 9x,
ME, NT 3.51, 4, 5, XP, Vista, 8.x, 10, Server 2k, 2k3, all the way to 2019
(no 2022 as of the last time I looked), plus various versions of Exchange
Server, SQL Server, more. They’re official installs from MS, license keys
and all, and they still install. Even DOS 6, assuming you can find floppies
to drop it on, and a computer which can run it. The last machine I have which
has a working floppy drive is a beige G3 Mac; I dumped the images for DOS 6
to the Mac and built floppies... a long time ago. Haven’t found a machine
which will install DOS 6, though. Too old.
Of course, you have to get access to Imagine, which ain’t simple.