Windows 2000 Pro Support

[Taggart]

Anyone heard any rumours as to when Microsoft might stop supporting Windows 2000 Pro?

[cdnvic]

Anyone heard any rumours as to when Microsoft might stop supporting Windows 2000 Pro?

It's not set in stone but most likely January 2010. I earlier mistakenly reported Dec 2007.

[Taggart]

Anyone heard any rumours as to when Microsoft might stop supporting Windows 2000 Pro?

It's not set in stone but most likely January 2010. I earlier mistakenly reported Dec 2007.

cdnvic:

Thanks. The possibility of extending my old PC's life from 5 years to 8 years plus, sounds great.

[cdnvic]

Anyone heard any rumours as to when Microsoft might stop supporting Windows 2000 Pro?

It's not set in stone but most likely January 2010. I earlier mistakenly reported Dec 2007.

cdnvic:

Thanks. The possibility of extending my old PC's life from 5 years to 8 years plus, sounds great.

IMO, Windows 2000 has been the best Windows to date.

[h90]

Anyone heard any rumours as to when Microsoft might stop supporting Windows 2000 Pro?

It's not set in stone but most likely January 2010. I earlier mistakenly reported Dec 2007.

cdnvic:

Thanks. The possibility of extending my old PC's life from 5 years to 8 years plus, sounds great.

IMO, Windows 2000 has been the best Windows to date.

if instead of making vista, they would have improved win2000 and tried to make the code faster and smaller, we would have a OS which works on all PCs fast and stable.

[Gary A]

There were many time when I seriously considered putting Windows 2000 Pro back on my computer. Once I finally got all the correct drivers installed it ran flawlessly. Now my XP Pro is working quite well and as far as I am concerned, Vista is still three or four years in the future.

Better yet would be a commercial Linux version that has all the drivers installed and updates by itself. I want a system that I don't have to be constantly fiddling with. NO! I'm not a Microsoft fan by any means.

[cdnvic]

You might want to consider a Mac then, especially now that you can also run Windows on them using Bootcamp, or Paralells.

[Gary A]

You might want to consider a Mac then, especially now that you can also run Windows on them using Bootcamp, or Paralells.

I went to the US in Sept./Oct and bought a new laptop. I did consider an Apple but chose an T43p IBM with all the bells and whistles. I got a great buy on it because it has the single core processor rather than the duo core. I was mainly concerned with my AutoCad not working properly on the Apple. I think anytime you have to use another program such as Bootcamp to run what you want to run it may end up having some glitches. MY AutoCad is a legal program and it was VERY expensive when I bought it. The IBM had Windows XP Pro already installed and so far I am VERY happy with my IBM.

[Taggart]

You might want to consider a Mac then....

I liked the idea of Mac myself, until I heard on the news the other day that Greenpeace is running a campaign against Apple because the company is still using toxic chemicals in their Macbooks.