ActiveWin got their hands on a beta version of the third service pack for Windows 2000. They report that the update will be released very soon. Here is the bug fix list for the SP3.
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 Nears Completion
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didn’t service pack 2 just come out a couple weeks ago? Either I caught that one rather late or this one is just a fast turnaround (at this rate I’m expecting a beta of 4 to leak five minutes after 3 goes public).
I think SP2 has been out for awhile. Maybe a year.
yeh service pack two has been out for nearly a year.
Great to see them still polishing my favorite version of Windows. That there be a lot of bugfixes.
service packs were aimed at improving the performance of Windows :/
I find the last entry in the list the most amusing.
Being the hardened *Nix user that I am, I have to say that Win2K is an acceptable desktop OS, and probably the last one from MS that I will ever use. And probably not for much longer.
Honestly if it weren’t for this latest activation registration scheme I would not be able to say with such conviction that W2K will be the last Microsoft OS I will use. But that was the last straw. No Passport. No Hailstorm. No .NET. ever
Go BSD. or any open source OS.
Or else I am going to have to eat my words and empty my wallet a few years from now.
Imagine how much an OS from Microsoft is going to cost in a few years after all competition has been squashed. That should scare even died in the wool Microsoft fans.
Hmm, a choice between MS and Linux. Why oh why did it have to come to this.
Hmm, a choice between MS and Linux. Why oh why did it have to come to this.
You know, there IS more out there than windoze and the penguin. To my friends who’re getting sick of M$, and find gnu/linux / *bsd too difficult to work with, I have been recommending OS X hardcore. IMHO, it’s a brilliant operating system. Apple has a far better chance of getting my cash from now on than M$.
“To my friends who’re getting sick of M$, and find gnu/linux / *bsd too difficult to work with, I have been recommending OS X hardcore. IMHO, it’s a brilliant operating system. Apple has a far better chance of getting my cash from now on than M$.”
Cool, so if you want to buy me one of those snazzy new $1200 iLamps, I’d be most happy to try it out
thanks for ruining another potentially interesting discussion
“Honestly if it weren’t for this latest activation registration scheme I would not be able to say with such conviction that W2K will be the last Microsoft OS I will use. But that was the last straw. No Passport. No Hailstorm. No .NET. ever
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Are you sure there will be no Passport for WIN2k? have all look at outlook xp/2002.
And I bet the .net enviroment/runtime will be available for 2k.
using w2k too
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You’ve got to think with all the backlash against the activation stuff and the fact its stopped 0 pirates (and never will imho) that ms will be smart enough to dump it before he next os/office realease. After all their not known for stupid decisions in redmond (except for that bob thing, damn that was dumb, and activation of course).
It still doesn’t address the inability to add a workstation to the domain (mixed mode) from a workstation w/o being a domain admin. Seems pretty friggin’ ridiculous.
Are you sure there will be no Passport for WIN2k? have all look at outlook xp/2002.
And I bet the .net enviroment/runtime will be available for 2k.
Passport’s usable from most versions of Windows, it’s a web service, not really much to do on the client. XP allows you to associate a Passport with each user if you want to, and Windows Messenger seems to require a Passport to use (so just disable it, who uses that anyway?). I haven’t seen Outlook XP ask for or use Passport for anything yet…
The .Net runtime is available for 9x/2k/XP, I’d expect that it’ll be integrated with the new versions of Windows starting with the .Net Server line. Realistically, though, someone that decides they’re against the .Net runtime is about the same as someone that decides they’re against the Win32 API. You either like it or you don’t, and Hailstorm/.Net My Services should have nothing to do with the decision. Just because MS uses the same name for everything in site (Windows and Office XP would’ve been .Net instead of XP if the .Net framework had been ready on time…) doesn’t mean that they’re all the same thing
Sooner or later someone will complete a version of the .Net framework for another OS (ie Mono for Linux). Maybe then we’ll see how well this whole thing works. Screw Hailstorm, I could care less about web services, I’d just like to see a better cross-platform environment than the Java VM or recompiling my code with new GUI toolkits every time I turn around (heh, if someone could build a .Net implementation that could deal with multiple toolkits without recompile THAT would be worth working with)…