Final Windows 2000 Update 385
Ant writes "An article on eWeek discusses Microsofts plans to ship a Windows 2000 Update Rollup, the final security patch for the 5-year-old operating system. The Update Rollup, which replaces Windows 2000 SP5 (Service Pack 5), is a cumulative set of hot fixes, security patches and critical updates packaged together for easy deployment. The Update Rollup will contain all security-related updates produced for Windows 2000 between the time SP4 was released and the date the update ships. It will also feature a small number of important, non-security updates. The Update Rollup comes just one month before mainstream support for Windows 2000 client and server releases expires on June 30."
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Re:It's a shame... (Score:3, Funny)
Just look at the security: I don't see any outstanding security bulletins on MS-DOS 1.0. How many MS-DOS 1.0 PCs have viruses, and how many are 0wned by zombie networks?
Ruh Roh... (Score:1, Funny)
Finally! (Score:1, Funny)
Forking from Win2K to Linux...Is it hard? (Score:2, Funny)
However at that point, I hope to change to Linux. There has to be a lot of people on Slashdot who have done this. Are there any suggestions of what to avoid? It has been my hope that Linux gets easier to install and operate ever few years.
I've installed Linux about five times in seven years. The first few times were absolute nightmares. The last time wasn't too bad. It's just that I already had Windows 2K working and it was free, and most important, I already knew how to use it.
I will never pay any money to Microsoft for any reason. It's just not an option for me. If they want me to give them money then they first need to give me a whole lot more money and then I'll consider giving some of it back. Technically then I would have given them money. But, they haven't contacted me yet.
One great advantage to Linux is the possibility of customizing it to your needs. I can't stand having Windows have the Exit Application button be right next to the Run-Ap-in-Background button. What fool came up with the idea of having them right next to each other in the upper right corner? And of course, it can never be changed in a hundred years.
Another serious disadvantage to Windows is when you have a huge well organized hard disk with lots of directories that have descriptive names. When you're working in one program and want to use the file in another program, you have to open the second program , click on file open and then go through the LONG process of finding the file in the directory tree. I want to have the File_open screen bring up a list of the last ten directory points where I have accessed a file, regardless of which program used to access the file. In Windows, impossible now, impossible forever.
In Linux, maybe. If not now then someday. It's these kind of things that cause people to switch.
Random thoughts about Microsoft... (Score:2, Funny)
I can't blame Microsoft for phasing out Windows 2000. After all, synergies between killer applications empower emerging stewards to architect ubiquitous initiatives, harness revolutionary convergence, and engineer bleeding-edge solutions to recontextualize turn-key markets.
Growing open-source deliverables harness global interfaces to unleash holistic partnerships. Strategic content drives leading-edge web services to deliver efficient networks while syndicating one-to-one mindshare. When bleeding-edge content architects maximize seamless schemas to deliver robust web services, extensible infrastructures cultivate mission-critical functionalities. Best-of-breed communities target proactive enterprise paradigms while 24/7 methodologies reintermediate visionary content. By leveraging vertical synergies, content providers syndicate one-to-one cross-platform convergence.
Microsoft's plans include optimizing their internal operations to speed up delivery of Longtooth. Sources whom I consider accurate have told me that despite Microsoft's claims that Longtooth will be released by 2006 or 2007, the planned release date is actually late in 2019. Microsoft's secret goals for this version are:
Microsoft will accomplish these goals through a variety of changes. First, Longtooth will no longer be based on the Windows NT design philosophy, as were Windows 2000 and XP. Instead, Microsoft will release MS-DOS 9.0 2003, a 64-bit multithreaded DOS written in VisualBASIC.Net, and Windows Longtooth will run on top of that. Also, Longtooth will contain more code changes than any previous version of Windows, both in the number of changed source lines of code (SLOCs) and in the percentage of the total Windows codebase changed. Tremendous numbers of new features are being implemented in completely new code.
More importantly, Microsoft employees are combing through the codebase, in a relentless search for code that is mature, stabilized, and proven. This search has proved difficult, but when found, such code will be marked for reimplementation. I'm told that most of this code will be reimplemented in VisualBASIC.NET, even if the prior version was written in another language, such as C or C++. Programmers making the new VisualBasic.NET code are not allowed to look at the code that already exists, so that fixes to known issues will not be known until well after the software is deployed to millions of users.
The reason for these changes is simple: Study after study conducted by Microsoft has proven that security through obscurity is the only way to go, especially in an operating system deployed to millions of users, with many instances running mission critical applications in finance, industry, government, and other sectors. Microsoft has identified that viruses, worms, spam, spyware, adware, malware, hackers, and phreakers are able to compromise Windows security because vulnerabilities in the code are known. By changing much of the codebase, especially the stablest and most proven parts, Microsoft will thwart the efforts of malicious programmers, as it will take time for them to find the new vulnerabilities in the unknown code.
To meet Microsoft's first goal of reducing the user's perception of the complexity of Windows, Microsoft will integrate a new technology, dubbed Microsoft Windows User Simplicity And Security Manager 2003, into Longtooth. This technology will hide all configuration settings from the user. All settings will be completely automatic, and the user will have no need to know or care what is under the hood. In reality, Longtooth will be the most complex version of Windows yet, with thousands of configuration settings controlling nearly every function of the operating system. The settings will be produced by discove
Re:No IE7! (Score:1, Funny)
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