MS Drops Windows 2000 SP5

[Canterwood]

SP5 dropped for Windows 2000

According to the article, there won't be a SP5 for Win2K.

I can't say I'm surprised, as most of their resources are probably tied up trying to get 'Longhaul' back on track after XP SP2.
Customers would also probably demand XP SP2 like security features to be included in SP5, and that would cost MS more time and money, so a rollup of patches is the easiest way around that.
Oh, and the potential cash cow of telling people if they want security to upgrade to XP. :roll:

 

[bacillus]

hehe, 'Longhaul'

 

[Link19]

That really figures. They don't have to include all the security features that are in Windows XP SP2. If I were MS, I would include all the previous hotfixes (as always), driver updates, bug fixes, and change the way RPC functions like it does in Windows XP SP2 to make it more immune to certain attacks. In fact, I wish that's all that would have been done for XP SP2 instead of the overzealous strict security. Don't get me wrong, I do like security, but I don't think that much is necessary as long as you know what your doing with your PC. I use XP, but I still believe that 2000 is a great OS and should still have a great deal of support and life left in it. However, I think support should be dropped on Windows 98/ME all together.

 

[hopejr]

I don't think that much is necessary as long as you know what your doing with your PC.

Don't get me wrong, but many ppl out there (noobs) have no idea what they're doing. Those are the ppl that usually get the viruses and trojans (because they don't know how to prevent it) and are the reason for such upgrades to security in Windows. Maybe you were joking though.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Canterwood
SP5 dropped for Windows 2000

According to the article, there won't be a SP5 for Win2K.

I can't say I'm surprised, as most of their resources are probably tied up trying to get 'Longhaul' back on track after XP SP2.
Customers would also probably demand XP SP2 like security features to be included in SP5, and that would cost MS more time and money, so a rollup of patches is the easiest way around that.
Oh, and the potential cash cow of telling people if they want security to upgrade to XP. :roll:

Hrm. I'm not happy, but I can't say that I'm not surprised, either. The signs were the same, as when MS was just on the verge of releasing NT4 SP7 (indeed, SP7 is still references in some MSKB articles about NT4!), but then dropped it suddenly, in order to create a marketing push towards adopting W2K instead.

Now they want us to move to XP SP2. Oh well. Time to switch to an alternative OS, I guess. No "forced XP migration" for me, please. (Interesting too, how much of a failure MS has had convincing corporate-wide rollouts of XP.)

This is pretty-much BS though, as W2K is still supposed to be supported.

I suppose it's totally in-line with MS dropping security patch support for IE users not using XP SP2 though. (Where is IE6 SP2 for users of Win98/98se/ME/W2K? MS is being negligent towards their customers, IMO.)

 

[hopejr]

Where is the IE patch for Windows Server 2003? I'm using Firefox on it because of that.