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Final Windows 2000 Update

Posted by Zonk on from the putting-her-out-to-pasture dept.

Ant writes "An article on eWeek discusses Microsofts plans to ship a Windows 2000 Update Rollup, the final security patch for the 5-year-old operating system. The Update Rollup, which replaces Windows 2000 SP5 (Service Pack 5), is a cumulative set of hot fixes, security patches and critical updates packaged together for easy deployment. The Update Rollup will contain all security-related updates produced for Windows 2000 between the time SP4 was released and the date the update ships. It will also feature a small number of important, non-security updates. The Update Rollup comes just one month before mainstream support for Windows 2000 client and server releases expires on June 30."

2 of 385 comments (clear)

  1. WOW! This must mean it's perfect now, no bugs! yay by legal_asshole · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I bet they still will have patches for 5 year old versions of linux... if only linux was a perfect as windows 2000 is now..

    ;)

  2. You need to UPGRADE by omb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you are a corporation, committed to evil, as M$
    is please do not be surprised when marketing turns
    technical sanity into a pretzel;

    The message you are intended to take, from this, if
    you are smart is __UPGRADE__ since w2K is dead,

    if you are smarter, use this as a poster child for
    why M$ is not to be trusted as a business partner,
    and move your servers to Apache, and your clients
    to Firefox,

    then migrate all servers to Linux, carefully and
    cautiously, and forget about crashes and reboots.