Microsoft has scrapped its plan to release a Windows 2000 Service Pack 5. This also means that any hopes of adding some of the security enhancements to the operating system similar to those added for Windows XP is also dead. This announcement comes in spite of many analyst's warnings that long term security issues still exist in Windows 2000.
Microsoft did say that they will release what they call an "Update Rollup" next year as the final security update for the older operating system. But there is no chance that some of the security add-ons like a firewall will be part of it.
A Microsoft spokesperson said, "The enhancements introduced in Windows XP SP2 will not be back-ported to Windows 2000, as this would require a significant rearchitecting to a large portion of the Windows 2000 code base." She also said that feedback from Windows 2000 users indicated they prefer stability to new additions.
Windows 2000 is still the dominate operating system in the business world, although projections indicate that by the end of 2005, the majority of those users will have migrated over to Windows XP.
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