[sldev] Thoughts regarding "OS X Panther support"

[Gary Wardell]

> 
> 
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> > On 2008-05-05, at 21:26, Alissa Sabre wrote:
> >> Isn't it possible to stop supporting pre-SP4 Windows 2000?
> >
> > Microsoft is making it increasingly difficult to download 
> updates for 
> > Windows 2000, including SP4.
> That's more a case of Microsoft dropping support for w2k 
> which of course 
> we can do nothing about, however I can't find anything which suggests 
> it's not easy to download SP4.
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1001A
> AF1-749F-49F4-8010-297BD6CA33A0&displaylang=en
> 
> It doesn't even try to check if you have a genuine copy of windows, 
> which most microsoft downloads do. But, in any case, even if they do 
> remove the download..
> 
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Index+of%22+%09W2KSP
> 4_EN.EXE&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
> 
> Can we get some demographics from LL outlining a) the number of w2k 
> users, and b) the number of w2k SP4 users?
> 
> Also, SP4 had some major security fixes, anybody who is not 
> using SP4 on 
> an internet-connected machine is a little insane..
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom
> _______________________________________________

Hi,

Yes, I don't buy that either.

You can still find downloads for NT 4.0 SP 6.0a and that is log past end of life.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e396d059-e402-46ef-b095-a74399e25737&DisplayLang=en


I could be wrong but I think Win2K is still under some limited support and critical hot fixes.

Gary