Win2K has nine months left to live

[RudeDawg]

If you prefer to have Win2K installed on your new system, get it now.

Redmond retirement ratchet spells doom for Win2k

Originally posted by John Lettice at The Register Windows 2000 has been given nine months to live, as far as OEMs are concerned, and Microsoft is pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2k/WinXP systems immediately. Microsoft operating systems magically become more expensive and difficult to obtain as soon as there's a new rev out, but so long as the previous version is still available on new PCs via OEMs, business customers have a relatively simple way to stick with their current OS, rather than having to do an expensive rollout of the replacement. The demise of dual install, which makes it easier and cheaper for OEMs to cater for customers in this position, will make life harder for everybody but Microsoft, and of itself will make the PC companies more inclined to drop Win2k. And as their contracts won't allow them to sell Win2k as of April 2003, well, there's less and less point in wriggling, isn't there, folks?

hmm, this has nothing to do with it, does it?

The moves will have an immediate impact on upgrade strategies and costs, and by a miraculous coincidence Microsoft's widely-hated Licensing 6.0 becomes The Law at the end of this month. So, you're an IT manager with a major installation standardised on Win2k, you haven't decided whether to go for Licensing 6.0 yet, what are your options?

Get your Win2K before it's too late !

[ 07-08-2002, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: RudeDawg ]

[Arwyn the Betrayer]

Well, you might as well switch to another OS.

[Sir Kenyth]

Awwww S#1t!!! I've barely finished certs on W2K! WTF! It's barely been out long enough to be properly implemented!

It's getting ridiculous now! Every time I get my MCSE, they change it straight away! It looks like there'll be more studying coming my way!

I'm collecting quite a set now, NT MCSE, WIN2K MCSE, what's next? XP?