NT4.0 Farewell Party: July 1, 2003 MS plans to officially withdraw NT 4.0 at July 1, 2003. From that day you will not be able to buy it anymore, and support slowly is phased out. MS has already started to try to phase out NT, as reported in W2Knews issue # 311 by stopping to sell NT volume licenses. That effectively forced anyone rolling out new servers to get the higher priced W2K licenses.
And last week Redmond unveiled their long-term support plans, which indicate that it really goes away. The 'shrinkwrap' NT Server and NT Server Enterprise Edition boxes disappear from shelves July 1, 2002. The rest of the Phase Out Schedule goes as follows: January 1, 2003: Introduction of fee-based support for, among other things, bug fixes and Windows NT non-security hotfixes. January 1, 2004: Redmond ends non-security hotfix updates. January 1, 2005, online Windows NT support disappears. This obviously will make people think about moving to W2K a bit faster these coming two years. MS is cutting off NT's life simply because they want people to upgrade, and to get out of supporting the now 5-year old code base. Most of us though are very happy using NT as a plain vanilla mail server or file-print box, as it works like clockwork doing that. Oh well, the price of progress I guess. Warm regards, Stu (email me with feedback: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
