1. Microsoft held back a free WannaCry patch, report says. It held back a free repair update on machines running older software like Windows XP. Microsoft wanted hefty fees of up to $1,000 a year.
2. Please see the guidance from Microsoft here: 'Customers who are running supported versions of the operating system (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7.

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I have an old Vista laptop running Vista (32 bit). I tried to install Microsoft's patch for WannaCry from http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598

When I try to install the Vista patch (not the 64-bit; the 3rd one in the list), it starts installing and then eventually says that it's not applicable to my computer.

Two weird things: 1) When I click the hyperlink that is the name of the patch, the page that comes up is in Spanish. 2) I can tell that the description box that comes up is describing the Win XP SP3 patch.

Has anyone else run in to this?

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Please see the guidance from Microsoft here:

'Customers who are running supported versions of the operating system (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016) will have received the security update MS17-010 in March. If customers have automatic updates enabled or have installed the update, they are protected. For other customers, we encourage them to install the update as soon as possible.'

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