Microsoft will phase out a slew of products as of December 15, citing its 2001 legal settlement with Sun Microsystems over Java as the impetus. Among the products that Microsoft will no longer make available to customers through any of the Microsoft's sales channels are Windows 98, SQL Server 7 and a number of versions of Office 2000, according to a note from a Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) program manager posted to a public Microsoft newsgroup. It also appears some versions of NT 4.0 are also due to be phased out, but as the note is ambiguous on this point, it's impossible to tell which ones. The December 4 note, which is featured on the MSDN Public Newsgroup, was signed by Andy Boyd, MSDN Subscriber Downloads program manager.
Due to a settlement agreement reached in January 2001, the following products are being phased out and will no longer available to customers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads or other channels at Microsoft," according to Boyd's note. "These products will be removed from MSDN Subscriber Downloads as of December 15th, 2003." The products targeted for phase-out are those that embed Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine technology. Other products on the Dec. 15 phase-out list include: Office XP Developer and Office 2000 Developer editions; Office 20000 Premium Service Release 1; BackOffice Server 2000; Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2000; Internet Explorer 5.5; and Visual Studio 6 Microsoft Developer Edition. One developer, who requested anonymity, noted that a number of products on the due-to-be-phased-out list are key for many companies.
News source: eWeek
Due to a settlement agreement reached in January 2001, the following products are being phased out and will no longer available to customers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads or other channels at Microsoft," according to Boyd's note. "These products will be removed from MSDN Subscriber Downloads as of December 15th, 2003." The products targeted for phase-out are those that embed Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine technology. Other products on the Dec. 15 phase-out list include: Office XP Developer and Office 2000 Developer editions; Office 20000 Premium Service Release 1; BackOffice Server 2000; Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2000; Internet Explorer 5.5; and Visual Studio 6 Microsoft Developer Edition. One developer, who requested anonymity, noted that a number of products on the due-to-be-phased-out list are key for many companies.
News source: eWeek
What's New in This Release:
· + Import of Outlook Express address items (Windows Address Book)
· + IMAP Fine-Tune option to disable message flag refreshing each time a folder selected (to save time and bandwidth in case of single client and single user access)
· - 0001618 A dot character was added to the outgoing attached files without extension
· - 0001821 HTML-to-Plain routine was converting the title tagged text as a part of plain text content
· - A dot was always added to the name of an attached file without an extension
· - An extra attachment was created due to move attachments between folders when attachments were stored separately
· - Deletion settings were not used for purging from the Folder Maintenance Centre
· - IMAP messages were not refreshed when their flags were changed by a concurrent user
· - It was not possible to define a folder for alternative deletion if ordinary deletion was not using any non-Trash folder
· - PGP v7+ key server search loop (Beta)
· - Recipient addresses weren't imported from Outlook 2000.
· - Selected IMAP folder was not refreshed on new messages arrival
· - A lot of cosmetic bugs
If it does indeed come to those products being removed, with the exception of ISA Server 2000, most of the products are scheduled for normal Microsoft end-of-life support at the end of 2003 anyway.
Oh well, hope to see what the IE 5 users think about that.
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Guess that is one way to get people to buy Office 2003...... LOL
But Sun needs to realize that they are opening MS up to many new doors by taking all of this software with bugs, and wanting to copyright their code only. They will have to dish out alot of stuff to make up for time lost while MS perfected their design.
And since MS can't have this anymore, it lets them clear the way for more service twords other products.
John
Don't understand what?
That you think your posts are somehow more important than everyone else's and therefore deserve a more prominent display in the circumstances you describe? What kind of bullsh*t is that?
If the Neowin board wanted to optimize this site for retransmission to other media they would certainly do so. In the mean time, everyone has to put up with your engaging in a practice that's the Net equivalent of SHOUTING, which has long been considered rude and unacceptable in Net postings.
Lucky I moved away from Windows 98 and Office 2000 long ago
And those progams couln't seriously still be considered flagship. Thats for WinXP and Office 2003
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