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Microsoft retires Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2

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“Windows 2000 looked obsolete back in 2005, five years after its
debut; giving its largely corporate users another five years of
support was more than generous enough. Microsoft is a for-profit
company, not a public utility; it is within its rights to direct
its resources towards products it sells today.

“By way of comparison, Apple has a habit of only supporting the
current and previous version of OS X–the 2005-vintage OS X 10.4
Tiger saw its last update in May 2009. Things aren’t that different
with the open-source Linux operating system: Even the “long term
support” releases of Ubuntu Linux, such as the recently reviewed
10.04, only come with three years of updates.”


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