Microsoft closes the window for Win2k

Microsoft divides its product lifecycle support into 2 phases, mainstream and extended and Microsoft has ended the mainstream support for Windows 2000. People may consider this to be a bad move as Windows 2000 is still popular especially among small and medium size business but we have to look at the issue from Microsoft’s point of view as well. This operating system is old and it has redundant standards built into it. To continue mainstream support for this OS would mean re-engineering Windows 2000 to reach today’s standards. With new types of virus coming out everyday and new software being developed that uses features of Windows XP, it is tedious effort to bring Win 2K up to speed. For all those people still using Win 2K (more than 1/3 of the people who read this blog use Win 2K), start planning your migration to Win XP, it is not worth taking the security risk with all the data and identity theft out there.

(I am out of town this weekend so please excuse the less frequent update of this blog.)