Windows 2000 moves to the back burner
By Ina Fried
News.com
http://news.com.com/Windows+2000+moves+to+the+back+burner/2100-1016_3-5766696.html
Story last modified Tue Jun 28 12:03:00 PDT 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday issued what is expected to be its last significant
revision of Windows 2000.
The software maker released what it calls an Update Rollup for the
5-year-old operating system, which is due to shift at the end of this month
from receiving mainstream support to extended support. Microsoft does not
generally add features to a product under extended support, and the Update
Rollup is largely a collection of previously released patches as opposed to
a batch of new features.
In addition to already released fixes, the collection "may contain fixes
for non-public low- and moderate-level security issues that did not warrant
individual security bulletins," a Microsoft representative said.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said last November that it would
release the Update Rollup rather than offer a fifth service pack. As a
result, the final service pack for Windows 2000 becomes the SP4 release
that came out in March 2003.
Although Windows 2000 has been followed by several other Windows versions,
the software remains extremely popular in corporations and small
businesses. It still accounts for nearly half of all Windows-based business
desktops, according to a recent survey by AssetMetrix.
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