last I heard they may have done a about face on this as well. They being Microsoft are not releasing any fixes for Windows 2000 to fix the daylight savings fiasco that the United States congress created. It's like Y2k all over again. Yet we are past Y2K. I'm wondering how many stock orders or online orders will be executed a hour late or not executed at all.
-Miller On 2/16/07, Elijah Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Microsoft is still releasing updates for Windows 2000. However, only security updates are being release, not "feature" updates. See http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?rdpath=fh;en-us;lifecycle Elijah On 2/12/07, Michael Miller < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If M$ 2000 = Windows 2000 Workstation. That product is dead. > Microsoft is only releasing updates for Windows 2000 for paying > support customers. > > -Miller > > On 2/11/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are so inclined as to run that OS. The main point is that > > even software and hardware manufacturers will continue to > > support the OS as long as Microsoft does. When M$ put the nail > > in the coffin for 98/ME others started to follow. With that > > information in hand many companies are content to still run XP > > if they have even upgraded to it yet. > > > > Now what is needed is for more companies to produce their > > commercial software as cross platform encompassing the major > > operating systems (linux, OS X.3,4,5, M$ 2000, XP, Vista). There > > are far too many instances of "if only" keeping people from > > running Linux as their primary or only OS. Reliable numbers are > > needed to show its strength on the desktop especially compared > > to OS X as many companies are making their software available > > for Apple too (Adobe/Macromedia, Intuit). At least Google is > > doing what they can on porting some of the apps over that they > > have acquired. GoogleEarth and Picasa are a good start. I hope > > Nero decides to keep their NeroLinux updated too as I rather > > like it and was happy to purchase a license for it. > > > > And while we're at it, I want a full Quicktime implementation on > > Linux. I don't care about iTunes as I don't like DRM laden music > > but I do like watching the movie trailers on Apple.com. > > > > That be all (for now), > > Mr O. > > > > --- Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > So pretty much mean's, my windows XP box is still worth its > > > prime hardware > > > off the shelf, since last year, when I brought it home back in > > > August, right > > > Mr. O ? > > > > > > In fact when Vista was in its hype, I knew for some reason, XP > > > would be the > > > norm for a while, before there wasn't anything, I've yet used > > > that would be > > > worth getting Vista for? > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > euglug@euglug.org > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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