Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329914

I was curious how Windows 8 could already have reached the end of its support lifecycle. Turns out Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 are no longer supported but Windows 8.1 Update still is. Great naming scheme...

The article says

« Microsoft no longer supplies security patches for those versions of Windows. The software giant today made an exception to that policy »

From what https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer... describes, I think it would be more accurate to say

« Microsoft now supplies security patches for those versions of Windows only to people who pay for custom support. The software giant today made an exception to that policy »

(which would explain why it didn't take them long to come up with a patch).

Does anyone know if any non-MS implementation like samba is vuln?

source?

Oh, I found on another post: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer...