W2k - Still supported by Microsoft?

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Hi

After applying SP4 and security roll-up 1 for W2k I ran into some problems.
When I found information about these problems on the MS homepage all of them
said that I should contact their support in order to get a hotfix.

This is not free of charge...

My question now is if Microsofts support for Windows 2000 has ended or...?

Regards
Wayne
 
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7274

| Hi
|
| After applying SP4 and security roll-up 1 for W2k I ran into some
problems.
| When I found information about these problems on the MS homepage all of
them
| said that I should contact their support in order to get a hotfix.
|
| This is not free of charge...
|
| My question now is if Microsofts support for Windows 2000 has ended or...?
|
| Regards
| Wayne
 
Ok, so the mainstream support has ended.
Do I understand correctly then that there will be no more security patches
released for W2k?

Wayne
 
Wayne said:
Ok, so the mainstream support has ended.
Do I understand correctly then that there will be no more
security patches released for W2k?
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Hi,

For a product in the extended support phase, security updates will be
released to it.

Extended support for Win2k SP4 is not retired until June 30, 2010, so
up to that time security updates will be available for Windows 2000 SP4
at no charge.
 
Wayne said:
Hi

After applying SP4 and security roll-up 1 for W2k I ran into some problems.
When I found information about these problems on the MS homepage all of them
said that I should contact their support in order to get a hotfix.

This is not free of charge...
Click to expand...

What hotfix was this?

Note that Microsoft re-released Rollup 1 for Win2k SP4 yesterday, it
includes several new hotfixes.

More here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891861
 
Thanks for that, so basically security patches will still be support until
2010 and I now have to pay for phone support (which I have never required)
 
Given the current patch support that sounds about right. Of course I
don't speak for Microsoft and YMMV. :-)
 
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