End Of Support for Windows NT 4.0

IdleMindUI writes "This month is the last month that hotfixes for Windows NT 4.0 will be released. Security fixes will only be released to Microsoft customers with Custom Support Agreements. Custom Support Agreements are still available for customers that need them and can be obtained by contacting a Microsoft rep. More information is available on the NT 4.0 support lifecycle site."

Comments

Clarification for the vagueness

[Rick Zeman]

That's NT 4 Server. NT 4 Workstation was EOL'd over a year ago.

Makes Sense to Me.

[MBCook]

Windows 2000 was released on Feb 17th, 2000.
Windows 2003 was released on Apr 24th, 2003.

A replacment to NT 4 was released, followed by a replacment to THAT, and NT 4 has still been getting support for a year+ after that. I'm a bit suprised that NT was still supported without needing those special contracts up untill now.

For reference, 2K will get "mainstream" support (cost-per-incidient, free hotfixes) untill Jun 30 of this year, and "extended" stupport (hourly cost, pay for hotfixes) untill Jun 30, 2010. Hotfixes are free for everyone untill '07. I can't find End-of-Life dates for Windows 2003.

Re:Supporting?

[alangmead]

Sun produces patches in support for Solaris two years after the last ship date, and ends support five years after the last ship date. That has them creating patches for Solaris 7 until next August and phase 2 support for Solaris 2.5.1 ending next September.

Re:Sits back, grabs a drink and....

[Lifthrasir]

i work for a large-ish hospital in australia (roughly 2500 PC's and 120 servers). We have 2 VMS systems running on Alpha's (ones for failover), a few boxes supplied by vendors running god-knows-what, maybe 20 running 2000 Server and the rest running NT server.

I however managed to get 1 linux box into production running some web services such as a frontend to our call logging database and an inventory management program, both of which i wrote myself.

All of the windows servers have a scheduled job to restart them weekly in the early hours of the morning so they work properly, and my box has an uptime of around 120 days ATM. It would be more too, except the power to the room is a bit average, even though it has 2 huge UPSs and 2 seperate power feeds.

Re:It will be interesting

[SunFan]

I only WISH a Unix/Linux vendor had the support MS does for thier legacy products!

Here is Sun's Solaris lifecycle. In fact, it looks like the latest patch cluster for Solaris 2.5.1 came out in September. Solaris 2.5.1 first shipped in 1996.