Microsoft Corp. will gradually phase out its Windows 2000 Server family, the company said Wednesday. Effective April 1, 2006, the products will no longer be available. The retirement announcement comes eight months after the introduction of Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows 2000 Server, and almost four years after the Windows 2000 Server launch on Feb. 17, 2000. Retirement of Windows 2000 Server will be spread out over a two-year period starting on April 1, 2004. From that date, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server will no longer be available through the retail channel or through Microsoft's volume licensing programs, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker said in a posting on its Web site.
On Nov. 1, 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Datacenter will be pulled from the direct OEM (original equipment manufacturer) channel, Microsoft said. This means the products will no longer be available from vendors such as Hewlett-Packard Co. that have direct license agreements with Microsoft. A year later, on Nov. 1, 2005, system builders -- smaller, local companies that build servers from the ground up for customers -- will stop selling the Windows 2000 Server products, Microsoft said.
News source: InfoWorld
On Nov. 1, 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Datacenter will be pulled from the direct OEM (original equipment manufacturer) channel, Microsoft said. This means the products will no longer be available from vendors such as Hewlett-Packard Co. that have direct license agreements with Microsoft. A year later, on Nov. 1, 2005, system builders -- smaller, local companies that build servers from the ground up for customers -- will stop selling the Windows 2000 Server products, Microsoft said.
News source: InfoWorld
Some of the fixes included are:
Texture corruption is no longer seen when playing EA Sports' Madden 2004
Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp followed by playing Blade of Darkness with the game set to 1027x768 16bpp, and texture resolution set to max, no longer results in a flickering horizontal line of display corruption
Playing the game Battle Field 1942 under Windows XP results in the Haze effect appearing incorrectly
Playing the game Call of Duty no longer results in the operating system failing to respond
Setting the game Flight Simulator 2004 to display at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 followed by starting a new flight no longer results in the menu being flipped just before the new flight is about to begin
Choppy gameplay is no longer noticed with attempting to play the game Homeworld 2
The game Jedi Knight-Jedi Academy no longer fails to respond when enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x or 6x
Setting the texture preference bar to any setting lower than High Quality in the game Formula 1 2002 no longer results in the 2D game menu being displayed when maximizing the replay screen
Poor game performance is no longer noticed when playing the game Lord of the Realms 3 under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON(tm) 9200 series installed
Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the demo game 4x4 Evolution under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON(tm) 9600 series installed
Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game Indiana Jones at its default mode of 640x480 32bpp
Playing the game Morrowind with Truform enabled no longer results in the game failing to respond Configuring the game Halo Combat Evolved (demo) to 1024x768 followed by selecting a normal campaign no longer results in the operating system failing to respond
My ENT doc runs a cool wireless tablet setup in his office that runs on 2k server. It's pretty cool.
nice to see them guiding ppl to xp and longhorn when it comes out.
Last edited by 10354 on 18 Dec 2003 - 06:13
Guiding? Yeah, guiding through having removed all other options after a while. IMHO they're forcing.
It's sad to hear about this, since as opposed to Windows 9x, 2000 Server is still a VERY capable OS. I can't see how most of us would need anything more as long as it was supported by security patches. As opposed to Win 9x, it doesn't really build on a flawed OS architecture.
It's sad to hear about this, since as opposed to Windows 9x, 2000 Server is still a VERY capable OS. I can't see how most of us would need anything more as long as it was supported by security patches. As opposed to Win 9x, it doesn't really build on a flawed OS architecture.
agreed
nice to see them guiding ppl to xp and longhorn when it comes out.
Ok, first of all, what makes you think that support for Windows 2000 has been removed? This is only a plan to remove support for it, and even then it is only the Server versions that are mentioned.
Second of all, support for Windows ME is not up yet, and it will still be going on for a little while longer.
Third of all, am I the only one who read the article? Look at the date, folks! April 2006. That's almost two and a half years from now. You guys talk as if it's next month.
Fourth of all, if you look at Microsoft's Windows Lifecycle page, they even give you the time when Windows XP wil be phased out! Yes, mighty Windows XP, which is the current and most recent desktop OS from Microsoft, indeed also has a retirement planned! It's stilll a long way off, but it is already planned!
Before you guys panic and lose your heads over this stuff, consider the four points above please.
BTW, it sounds like this just means they'll stop selling it, not stop supporting it...
Plenty of time to learn / migrate to a new OS if you want to, and quite honestly, by 2006, things would have changed a pretty huge load from what it was when Windows 2000 was released, so why not just move to a new version?
In any case, the old nt 4.0 is still supported by MS, you cannot buy it but it have some sort of support.
This is nothing but speculation at this point
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