Microsoft has dumped the idea of releasing a fifth service pack for the enterprise-popular Windows 2000, and, instead, plans to produce an “update rollup” in the middle of next year as its last security patch for the OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to a posting on Microsoft’s Web site, the Update Rollup for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) will include all the security-related updates produced for the operating system between SP4’s release in November, 2003, and when the Redmond, Wash.-based developer finalizes the rollup’s contents.<\/p>\n
It will also contain “a small number of important non-security updates,” said Microsoft.<\/p>\n
It’s taking the rollup route–which it also used in October 2003 when it released a cumulative collection of security fixes for Windows XP–rather than a service pack, said Microsoft, because the number of not-seen-before updates are few, and Microsoft expects to have released most of them as individual updates prior to the rollup’s release.<\/p>\n
Microsoft will end support for free security fixes to Windows 2000 in June, 2005.<\/p>\n
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