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New Post 12/20/2006 9:26 AM
User is offline Ankur Mittal
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Microsoft Turns Up The Heat On Windows 2000 Users 
With the recent release of Microsoft's newest potential cash cows, Windows Vista and Office 2007, the company is expecting a wave of upgrades from users seeking the latest functionality. But what if you're not looking for new bells and whistles? What if you want to keep your old operating systems, such as Windows 2000, running as long as possible? Microsoft isn't making it easy for you. Office 2007 and the software for the company's much-hyped Zune music player won't install on Windows 2000. As other new products emerge from Microsoft in 2007 and beyond, more and more of them are likely to leave Windows 2000 out of the party.

Which of these installation restrictions are caused by a real lack of capabilities in Windows 2000, however? Are any of them merely a "squeeze play" by Microsoft to convince buyers that it's necessary to immediately upgrade all PCs to Vista and all servers to Server 2003 or the forthcoming Longhorn Server?

One example of this conundrum is Microsoft's Windows Defender program. This antispyware program can be downloaded for free, but it will only install on Windows XP, Server 2003, and higher. The application won't install on Windows 2000, according to Microsoft's own product documentation. Users have reported, however, that this is simply an artificial rule built into the Installshield package that copies Defender files to disk.

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New Post 12/21/2006 12:10 AM
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Re: Microsoft Turns Up The Heat On Windows 2000 Users 
some more examples are IE7, WMP11.

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New Post 5/11/2007 12:41 PM
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Re: Microsoft Turns Up The Heat On Windows 2000 Users 
Modified By Windows_Server2003 on 5/11/2007 12:43:22 PM)

These days remaining Windows 2000 Professionals users are from corporate catagories who are using branded IBM, HP , DELL Pc's. As far as IE 7.0 & WMP 11.0 is concerned, those developer's dont need it. How ever day by day no softwares will support Windows 2000 professional edition.

We still running Windows Server 2000 in our organisation. We have Mixed mode domain. Windows 2003 servers also we have, Exchange 2003 as a mail server. Exchange is better than any other E-mail Server...

Many companies still using Windows 2000 professional edition on employee's laptops as it's 1 of the most stable OS from Microsoft with less patches and secured . Usually in corporate world employees dont need multimedia things, so I guess they'll upgrade to Windows XP when support,updates for Windows 2000 ends by Microsoft.
 
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