Even though they have discontinued support, the windows update site continues to provide updates. Microsoft has not abandoned the products, just phases out tech support eventually.
Dennis McGrath --- Eric Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They're discontinuing support. Not disabling functionality of the > software. When was the last time you called Microsoft for support on > Win98 (which I might note is 5 years old now)? Are you using RBase > 4, > or whatever version came out in '98? Does RBTI support the version > of > RBase that came out in '98? > > Eric Peterson > IT Manager > QMI Security Solutions > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Eldred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:04 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - off-topic-windows announcement > > Not sure how much this affects any of you in your planning cycles, > but > Microsoft has decided that it will discontinue product support for > Windows > 2000 Professional as of Apil 2004 and that Win98 was discontinued as > of > June > 2003. XP's scheduled date of abandondment is December 2005. Windows > NT > Server is planned for obsolescnce as of December 2003 as well. > > Not sure about you, but this affects my users pretty heavily. Thought > I'd > pass the heads up along... > > :-) > > Tom Eldred >
