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Firefox 13 Will Drop Support for Windows 2000, Pre-SP2 XP

Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has announced that Firefox will be dropping support for Windows 2000 and pre-SP2 Windows XP, starting with Firefox 13. New releases will only work on Windows XP SP2+, as well as on Vista and Windows 7.Mozilla has had to drop support for these older operating systems in order to be able to s...

30 January 2012
18:51 GMT

XP SP2 Dies Next Week, Look to XP SP3 or Windows 7

Time has almost run out for one flavor of Windows XP, which is scheduled to die next week. As previously announced, Microsoft will cut the lifeline for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and all Windows 2000 releases on July 13th, 2010. Customers that are still running the Windows operating system versions mentioned abo...

5 July 2010
03:02 GMT

XP SP2’s Death Is 1 Month Away

There’s now less than a month until the second service pack for Windows XP expires completely. Support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is set to expire come next month in accordance with Microsoft’s Service Pack Support policy. According to the Redmond company, “Support ends 24 months after the ...

14 June 2010
05:54 GMT

Microsoft Re-releases Windows 2000 Patch and Security ISO Image for April 2010

As previously announced, Microsoft has re-released a patch designed to plug a security hole in Microsoft Windows Media Services on Windows 2000, after it pulled the update, noting that the initial release did not successfully resolve the issue as intended. “The re-release of MS10-025 is available. Again, this o...

28 April 2010
06:22 GMT

Microsoft Pulls Windows 2000 Patch

Microsoft has pulled a Windows 2000 patch released earlier this month, explaining that it discovered the security update was incapable of resolving a vulnerability in Windows Media Services. MS10-025, which received a severity rating of Critical, was released on April 13th, to plug a security hole in Windows Media Se...

26 April 2010
08:01 GMT

Download the First Windows Patch in 2010

On January 12th, 2010, Microsoft has made available the first Windows security bulletin this year. Although MS10-001 comes with a maximum severity rating of Critical, fact is that only customers still running Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are the most exposed to potential exploits targeting a Microtype Express Compress...

13 January 2010
07:46 GMT

Windows XP SP2 Dies on July 13, 2010, Upgrade to Windows 7

With the advent of Windows 7, the market shares of both Windows XP and Windows Vista have started bleeding, with users transitioning to the latest iteration of the Windows client. Still, although Windows 7 grabbed over 5% of the OS market, according to Net Applications, Windows XP is still the most used platform worl...

7 December 2009
08:55 GMT

Windows 7, Vista SP1/SP2, XP SP3 – the Windows Cocktail

Microsoft is brewing a Windows cocktail bound to be hard to swallow, either shaken or just stirred. The Redmond company's consistent headway in the development process of Windows 7 is forcing customers to consider a scenario where multiple possibilities weigh in balance. All because, Widows 7, Windows Vista Serv...

7 February 2009
06:48 GMT

Windows Vista and Malware Immunity

At the beginning of May, security company PC Tools revealed that Windows Vista "is not so immune." And in this attempt to wrap the obvious together with statistics from a limited pool of users and serve the result as a revelation, the security outfit went on to claim that "Windows Vista is more susceptible to malware...

21 May 2008
07:02 GMT

Vista Is Not More at Risk of Malware Infections than Windows 2000

Microsoft has come out guns blazing after claims based on independent security reports place Windows Vista on par, and even on an inferior position as compared to Windows 2000 in terms of security. Austin Wilson, Director, Windows Client Security Product Management, rejected the validity of statistics compiled by sec...

13 May 2008
07:07 GMT

Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP

If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the ...

14 January 2008
12:13 GMT

Windows: Your Password Must Be at Least 18,770 (!!!) Characters Long

The generalized customer perception is that Microsoft and security are by no means two complementary concepts. And that by using software products from the Redmond company, you inherently expose yourselves to an universe of risks, threats and attacks. Well, Microsoft has taken the necessary steps to correct this pers...

21 August 2007
10:49 GMT

Microsoft Applauds Windows Pirate

Pirating the Windows operating system is the right strategy to get yourself a round of Microsoft applause. However, the applause in question will be far from a sign of appreciation for the software piracy deed, and more of a celebration of the subsequent sentencing. In this sense, illustrative is the case of Justin E...

9 August 2007
04:03 GMT

Windows 2000 PC with 512 MB of RAM Running Windows Vista

I think that we all agree that a Windows 2000 ready computer is nothing more than a piece of junk, considering the standards associated with today's hardware. And what good is a piece of junk? Well, you can throw it away, or you can run Windows Vista on it. Now you have to keep in mind that Microsoft's lat...

1 August 2007
04:42 GMT

Windows 2000 Not the Worst Microsoft Project of All Times...

Windows 2000 is by no means the worst Microsoft project of all times... O well, maybe just a little bit. The operating system that was designed as an integer part of the Microsoft Windows NT collection of operating systems went live on February 17, 2000. And Microsoft could not spare any effort to get rid of it as fa...

10 July 2007
12:34 GMT

Uninstall Windows Vista and Restore the Previous Versions of Windows

Uninstalling Windows Vista and restoring the previously deployed version of Windows – be it Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 or even a low level edition of Vista – is quite a task. If you don't know your way around the command prompts, then you'd better stay away from this one or ask for help. ...

5 July 2007
07:12 GMT


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