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    Windows 2000 support expires soon

    End of the line, folks.
    ...officially mainstream support for Windows 2000, both Professional and Server, ends on June 30. I don't know about your customers, but when I talked to a group of CIOs and CTOs last week in Atlanta, more than half of them were still running tens of thousands of W2K desktops.

    Microsoft has also been making it clear for some time now that XP, not W2K, is going to get the lion's share of attention and improvements. For example, we now know that the security improvements in XP SP2 will not be making it into W2K.

    Still, I don't know about you, but I was startled to realize just how close the end of the line is for W2K.
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    NOoooooooooooooooooooooooo

    My fave os... how can this be?!

    Anyway very little can be seen about Windows 2000, as not too many end users have used 2000, win 98 and xp seem to be the most well documented os's and have the most support from the masses.

    I love windows 2000 and i will continue to use it over windows xp...

    So will i still be able to get updates for the OS, if and when they are released?! i.e. when i reinstall windows 2000.

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    you'll be able to use windowsupdate for old updates, but don't expect any new updates to appear

    that includes security

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    I use windows 2000 and this does not really bother me.

    With the amount of bloated, worthless crap they put in SP2 for XP, I'm kinda glad they won't be tampering with 2000.

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