Patches Built in February
The reason patches for XP were provided publicly at all is because MS had already written them - for XP POS (Point of Sale) edition, used for embedded systems like cash registers and ATMs. XP POS is supported until 2019, and as ElReg covered 3 years ago, XP can be tweaked to change it's identity and use POS patches directly.
So there is no conspiracy or foul play here - the patches were built in February because they were built for the POS edition. Don't expect any good will patches for XP after POS goes EOL in 2019 regardless of the outcry.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
