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Windows 2000 and XP-SP2 are now officially "End of Life" Today
According to Microsoft's product life-cycle roadmap, Windows 2000 and
XP-SP2 have now reached support end-of-life status. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...ter=Fil terNO This presumably means that Microsoft will no longer release security patches for Windows 2000, which by and large have proven compatible with Windows 98 over the years since Micro$haft ended support for win-98 back in July 2006. For those of you that don't know, most of the files contained within various security rollup packages (particularly Internet Explorer) released for win-2K have been shown to be compatible with windows 98, thereby providing indirect support for win-98 along those lines. That said, it's never really been proven that windows 98 is or was vulnerable to the dozens of IE exploits that were addressed by those patches since 2006. |
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Windows 2000 and XP-SP2 are now officially "End of Life" Today
98 Guy wrote:
According to Microsoft's product life-cycle roadmap, Windows 2000 and XP-SP2 have now reached support end-of-life status. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...ter=Fil terNO This presumably means that Microsoft will no longer release security patches for Windows 2000, which by and large have proven compatible with Windows 98 over the years since Micro$haft ended support for win-98 back in July 2006. For those of you that don't know, most of the files contained within various security rollup packages (particularly Internet Explorer) released for win-2K have been shown to be compatible with windows 98, thereby providing indirect support for win-98 along those lines. That said, it's never really been proven that windows 98 is or was vulnerable to the dozens of IE exploits that were addressed by those patches since 2006. I think you have to "upgrade" to sp3 to continue XP support. |
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Windows 2000 and XP-SP2 are now officially "End of Life" Today
On 7/14/2010 10:33 AM, Ted wrote:
98 Guy wrote: According to Microsoft's product life-cycle roadmap, Windows 2000 and XP-SP2 have now reached support end-of-life status. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...ter=Fil terNO This presumably means that Microsoft will no longer release security patches for Windows 2000, which by and large have proven compatible with Windows 98 over the years since Micro$haft ended support for win-98 back in July 2006. For those of you that don't know, most of the files contained within various security rollup packages (particularly Internet Explorer) released for win-2K have been shown to be compatible with windows 98, thereby providing indirect support for win-98 along those lines. That said, it's never really been proven that windows 98 is or was vulnerable to the dozens of IE exploits that were addressed by those patches since 2006. I think you have to "upgrade" to sp3 to continue XP support. Yes, support for XP SP3 continues until April 2014 currently. I do wonder where the majority of previous posters to the 98 general newsgroup will now go. |
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Windows 2000 and XP-SP2 are now officially "End of Life" Today
Dan W wrote:
On 7/14/2010 10:33 AM, Ted wrote: 98 Guy wrote: According to Microsoft's product life-cycle roadmap, Windows 2000 and XP-SP2 have now reached support end-of-life status. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...ter=Fil terNO This presumably means that Microsoft will no longer release security patches for Windows 2000, which by and large have proven compatible with Windows 98 over the years since Micro$haft ended support for win-98 back in July 2006. For those of you that don't know, most of the files contained within various security rollup packages (particularly Internet Explorer) released for win-2K have been shown to be compatible with windows 98, thereby providing indirect support for win-98 along those lines. That said, it's never really been proven that windows 98 is or was vulnerable to the dozens of IE exploits that were addressed by those patches since 2006. I think you have to "upgrade" to sp3 to continue XP support. Yes, support for XP SP3 continues until April 2014 currently. I do wonder where the majority of previous posters to the 98 general newsgroup will now go. They can stay right here, via another NNTP server. |
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