![]() ![]() Service Pack 4 has been out for 3 years – if you aren’t running it, you are not doing your job. ![]() In the case of 2000, it’s N-1 from the post SP4 rollup to SP4. MS always supports N-1 for SP’s on an OS. With this theory, you just increased testing for 2000 alone by 6 times. You want patches for everything, but you want them yesterday. Microsoft should fix exploits in ALL versions of software it produces. Deployment is trivial compared to the testing, but usually companies don’t have 4000 different kinds of images to worry about testing on. The hard part is testing, but again, a fact of life. You can do it for free with WSUS, or pay out the pooper for larger scaled apps like SMS, Tivoli, Altaris, etc. Patch management of service packs is a fact of life. Then they have lazy and inexperienced admins. The logistics of upgrading 4000 computers at once is a nightmare. The majority of the ones I seen have data centres running Windows 2000 SP2 or SP3. Many, as I’ve mostly consulted for Fortune 100 and 500 companies over the past 10 years. ![]() Using Win98? Patching is pointless, it’s not a secure OS anyways, move on for your own good. Not running SP4 on 2000? Update, it’s free. NT 4.0 has had a good run, time to move on. Novell – 5 years (+2 extended if you pay) – Is it practical and reasonable to support an OS for more than 10 years? Not really. In laymans terms… You guys are screwed unless you update. It should be a priority for customers who have these operating system versions to migrate to supported versions to prevent potential exposure to vulnerabilities.” Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Service Pack 6a, Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 6a, Windows 2000 Service Pack 2, and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 have reached the end of their support life cycles. I’m still using one of these operating systems, what should I do? Extended security update support for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 ended on June 30, 2005. Extended security update support for Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 6a ended on December 31, 2004. “Extended security update support for Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Service Pack 6a and Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 ended on June 30, 2004. Yeah right, it affects ALL versions of Windows.īut, the icing on the cake is this one…. Although Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition do contain the affected component, the vulnerability is not critical because an exploitable attack vector has not been identified that would yield a Critical severity rating for these versions.” ”Are Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium Edition critically affected by one or more of the vulnerabilities that are addressed in this security bulletin? For more information about the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policies for these operating systems, visit the following Web site” Non-critical security issues are not offered during this support period. ”How does the extended support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition affect the release of security updates for these operating systems?įor these versions of Windows, Microsoft will only release security updates for critical security issues. ![]()
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