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Microsoft Squeezes Win2000 Users

Posted by kdawson on from the 5-years-and-out dept.

darkonc writes "InformationWeek has a story on how Microsoft is squeezing Windows 2000 users as Vista and Office 2007 are being released. While some new software is legitimately unable to run on Windows 2000, other software (like MS's anti-spyware product) will install and run flawlessly — but only if you remove an explicit check for Windows 2000 in the installer." The article notes that other vendors, for example Sun, have more liberal and flexible support policies for legacy products.

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  1. Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows 2000 is rarely used anymore. Get with the times. It's going to be 2007, that'll make it 7 years old. Besides, its GUI is hideous compared to Vista's Aero goodness. Does anybody really want to use an OS that looks like Win95? Furthermore, the only people still stuck on Windows 2000 are paranoid weirdos afraid of Microsoft activation and are probably stealing their licenses anyway.

    1. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by Grimbleton · · Score: 5, Funny

      So how tight is the foil on YOUR head?

    2. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by rubicon7 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Does anybody really want to use an OS that looks like Win95? I said it in 1995, and I'll say it again now: NO.
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    3. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by edwardpickman · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'll pry my copy of Win 2000 out of my cold dead hands.

    4. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

      I paid for my license, am not a paranoid weirdo and don't have a problem with my computer looking the way it does instead of some Fisher Price/Playskool, created by a two-year old GUI. I have XP on my laptop. KDE, Gnome, and others have been working hard to replicate your Fischer Price/Playskool created-by-a-two-year-old GUI. So should you find yourself wanting to use Linux, you'll be right at home.
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    5. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm not sure they'd wait for you to go cold.

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    6. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It's going to be 2007, that'll make it 7 years old. ...
      Does anybody really want to use an OS that looks like Win95?

      Dude, I use CDE on Solaris 2.6. That's a 14-year-old OS that looks like Win3.1. Welcome to the real world, where having the latest-and-greatest is rarely a necessity for anyone over the age of 14.

    7. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by UnderDark · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know about you or the GP, but mine is always at, or greater than, 250 psi.

    8. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by Goaway · · Score: 4, Funny

      Themes are for people who think ";)" is punctuation.

    9. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by Anonymous+Cowled · · Score: 4, Funny

      > I don't know about you or the GP, but mine is always at, or greater than, 250 psi.

      Whoa, dude - slacken that off a bit - If it's too tight to your head, it just works as a transmitter!!

    10. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Funny

      We've been using carriage returns for what, the past 15 years? Its getting abit old.

  2. The Boston Globe by telchine · · Score: 5, Funny

    I phone up the Boston Globe and asked for their advice. they said I should "stop using Windows 2000"

    Man, those guys are good!

    1. Re:The Boston Globe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I expect *all* the products I buy to work as advertised, so I've kept Opera and stopped using the Globe.

  3. You love me, you really love me ! by Joebert · · Score: 5, Funny

    When my mom squeezes me, it means she loves me.
    I think that's why Microsoft does it too.
    I still haven't figured out why Uncle Tom squeezes me though. :/

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  4. Article should be entitled... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Funny

    How Microsoft is pushing Windows 2000 users to use a non-Windows operating system.