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Windows 2000 - Nine Months to Live
HeUnique writes "According the this story at The Register, Microsoft is planning to retire Windows 2000 as far as OEMs concerned. MS has asked OEMs to stop immediately the shipment dual-boot systems running Win2k/WinXP, so your choice now is either to upgrade to XP or else." Only if you're ordering systems running Microsoft Windows, though.
Where I work, we are still on NT4 and (thankfully) Office97 so there is no WPA in the system yet.
Weird. We're moving to WinXP and OfficeXP and there is still no WPA in the system. Or didn't you know the corporate edition didn't use that?
the highest brass don't want advice even from their more technically oriented underlings
Perhaps they have advice from their more technically oriented underlings, and you just don't happen to be in that bunch.
Only in 5 years they will feel the noose tightening around their neck and by that point, it will be VERY hard to switch to other platforms
5 years eh?
It's already extremely hard to switch to other platforms, has been for years. Why do you think Microsoft dominates this market?
, even though I expect that Linux will be very advanced by that time in comparison to today.
Weird. Where have i heard that before? Oh yeah, that's right... 5 years ago. Why hasn't it happened yet?
Why is it with Linux that all the promises are just around the corner? Don't you guys realize that the competitors are also improving their products? If you look at the NT4 release in 1996 would you have imagined Windows XP? I know Microsoft was promising the convergence, but nobody expected it would work this well.
It's people like you that give the Linux community a bad name.