Any ideas on when service pack 3 for windows 2000 will be released?

[Agent_of_Knowledge]

Any ideas on when service pack 3 for windows 2000 will be released? Some people even say that m$ is working on a sp4 for win2k! If it is true then all of us should have heard something about sp4 for win2k. what do you think on both of the matters?

[Truman]

25th july someone said... dunno if its true or not :ermm:

[+BudMan MVC]

Is the 25th not the scheduled release of winxp SP1?? I thought win2k sp3 was sometime in Aug? And yes from everything I have seen so far - there is suppose to be a sp4 for win2k. But then again there was suppose to be a SP7 for NT4. It it turned into a rollup package.

The hotfixes that are being released now for win2k - have sp4 listed in the names, etc.. (ie slated to be included in sp4)

-BudMan

[Truman]

I read it on http://www.windowsxp.nu/ that it was 25th but XPSP1 won't be till august i think at the earliest because it is only at beta 1 and SP3 is at RC3.14 or something.

[MulletRobZ]

There won't be a Service Pack 7 for Windows NT 4 because support for that OS has been discontinued or will be really soon.

[Steven]

Originally posted by Webgraph

There won't be a Service Pack 7 for Windows NT 4 because support for that OS has been discontinued or will be really soon.

Windows NT4 has entered the Extended Support Period, on June30th 2003, all support for NT4 will be discontinued.

You can view the Windows Product Life Cycle

here -->http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycleconsumer.asp

[y_notm]

Originally posted by Truman

I read it on http://www.windowsxp.nu/ that it was 25th but XPSP1 won't be till august i think at the earliest because it is only at beta 1 and SP3 is at RC3.14 or something.

you can't compare the build numbers of 2k-SP3 and XP-SP1. It's truly like apples and oranges. SP1 uses a more traditional build number system, with the first public release at 1050, and build numbers go up from there. 2000 SP3 has ALWAYS been labeled as an RC (both public releases anyways) and uses RC3.xx (3.051 and 3.14 or whatever)

but XP SP1 WILL come out after SP3, if just for the facts that more new features are going into SP1 and it started 8-10 months after SP3

[Agent_of_Knowledge]

Thanks for the replies. I checked windowsxp.nu and have confirmed that sp3 for win2k will be out July 25, 2002. Thanks for the heads up.