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Microsoft Pulls Plug for Support on NT4

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the being-put-out-to-pasture dept.

seymansey writes "According to Neowin.net and News.com, Microsoft has apparently announced that as of the end of June, support for the now aging NT4 OS will be pulled. NT4 Server users have until the end of 2004 for support. Windows 98 users will be the next on the list for axed support too. Of course, Microsoft will still provide its knowledge base, but we wont see any more patches, etc. developed for the OS. After 7 years, it's kind of sad to see NT4 go."

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  1. Good Ridance by Walrus99 · · Score: -1, Troll

    How sad :-(

  2. Oh? by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: -1, Troll
    "After 7 years, it's kind of sad to see NT4 go"

    Why is that?

  3. Re:After we finally got the thing stable.... by wagemonkey · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's easy to get NT4 stable, switch the PC off.

  4. Re:sad to see it go? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NT4 isn't doing anything, the MB and MPEG cards are doing all the work. You ought to press the vendor to write drivers for Linux instead of W2K. Then instead of 24 streams you would probably be doing thousands...

  5. re:nt4? by chef_raekwon · · Score: 1, Troll

    e nifty collaboration features that Outlook has. Group calendaring, group task lists.
    i must be ignorant -- is it because you are using exchange that you have these features??

    hell, if you really needed Group Calendaring, use Groupwise, or Domino. im even sure there is an open source equivalent....

    so you can fit in that Quake III Arena deathmatch.
    and lemme guess, you're running the server on winblows....

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