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Windows 2000 - Nine Months to Live

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-that's-less-than-a-nexus-six dept.

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.

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  1. Erk! by Mr_Silver · · Score: 3, Redundant
    This worries me somewhat. For the record I use Windows 2000 on the desktop and I'm perfectly happy with it (to the point of being accussed of trolling by some idiot who couldn't read).

    I see no real need to go to XP. Win2K does everything I need and pretty well. If I want development I fire up Linux and if I want games I run a bare bones cut down version of Win95 (with latest directx) which runs like the clappers.

    I can sort of understand why Microsoft want to do this, reduction of support costs, push to get people to move over to a largely unsucessfully taken up OS (saturation point has been reached where people have everything they want and don't see a need to upgrade) but at the same time I think that their 3 year support cycle is becoming more and more of an inconveniance - especially with this saturation.

    Now I've not really fiddled with XP that much, but is there anything really in there that would make Win2k people go "oooh oooh gotta upgrade now"? I was having a hard time finding anything.

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  2. Re:Win2k and Common English by Rogerborg · · Score: 1, Redundant
      • MS has asked OEMs to stop immediately the shipment dual-boot systems running Win2k/WinXP
      --What you say?

    All your customer base are belong to us.

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  3. Re:Win2k and Common English by forged · · Score: 1, Redundant
    • --What you say?

    For great justice !!!

    *shrug*