If you are using Windows 2000, you need to be aware of this. Microsoft plans to announce as early as next week that it is ready 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. Microsoft divides its support lifecycle into two phases: mainstream and extended. Once a product enters the extended support period, Microsoft charges for support.
Windows 2000 remains the most dominant operating system used in the enterprise, but once mainstream support ends later this month, analysts expect corporate migration to Windows XP to speed up.
As we wrote in a recent blog, this basically marks the end of Microsoft support for Windows 2000. Someday in the future, the same thing will happen to Windows XP, a few years after the next version of Windows (code named "Longhorn") is released. Just a friendly warning.
PS. I am writing this blog from Walnut Creek, CA as I am down here for an art show. I should have an Internet connection for most of the time I am in CA, so I can write the occasional blog from time-to-time between shows. My first show begins this morning.
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