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<p class="ivnh11"><span style="color: black;">Reminder: Windows 2000
Support ends
July 13 (and other lifecycle stuff for 2003, XP, SfU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;">Ned
here again. If you’ve been under a rock
for the past year, here it is one more time:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2000
support <u>ends</u> on July 13, 2010</span></b></em><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;">That
is just a week from now. For more info
on how to upgrade, migrate, and otherwise remove the last traces of
Win2000
from your environment, make sure you head here immediately:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;"><a
href="http://support.microsoft.com/win2000"><em><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: blue; text-decoration: none;">http://support.microsoft.com/win2000</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;">Other
major milestones on July 13th include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Windows
Server 2003 enters <strong><i><span
style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">extended</span></i></strong><em><span
style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> </span></em><strong><i><span
style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">support</span></i></strong><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Windows
XP SP2 (i.e. without SP3 installed) <strong><i><span
style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">support ends</span></i></strong><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Windows
Services for UNIX 2.0 <strong><i><span
style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">support ends</span></i></strong><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;">For
more info on what mainstream, extended,
and end of support policies mean, make sure you review:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><a
href="http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy"
title="http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy"><span
style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><a
href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/lifecycle/archive/2010/06/17/top-10-questions-about-the-end-of-support.aspx"
title="http://blogs.technet.com/b/lifecycle/archive/2010/06/17/top-10-questions-about-the-end-of-support.aspx"><span
style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">http://blogs.technet.com/b/lifecycle/archive/2010/06/17/top-10-questions-about-the-end-of-support.aspx</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;">This
is your final warning. The next time I
post on this it’s to say goodbye to the venerable operating system that
launched Active Directory more than a decade ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: black;">-
Ned “lonesome trail” Pyle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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