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End of life (this time for real) Microsoft reveals.

Dec 8, 2003 2:33AM PST
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405308,00.asp?kc=EWNWS120803DTX1K0000599

Some companies rely on some of the soon to absolutely, no-way, no-how, will Microsoft sell you a disk or license for the following products...

"Office XP Developer
Visio 2000
BackOffice Server 2000
Office 2000 Developer
Office 2000 Tools
Office 2000 Multilingual
Office 2000 Premium SR-1
Office 2000 Service Pack 2
Outlook 2000
Project 2000
SQL Server 7
SQL Server 7 Service Pack 3
Embedded Visual Tools 3.0
Visual Studio 6 MSDE
IE 5.5
MapPoint 2002
Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 and SP5
Windows 98
Windows 98 Y2K
Windows 98 Resource Kit
Windows 98 SP1 (all win98 except SE)
Windows NT 4.0
ISA Server 2000
Visual Basic for (Alpha Systems)"

These are all older products which may have no effect on home users but will create some problems for integrators that sell a solution on these items.

Bob

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Re:End of life (this time for real) Microsoft reveals.
Dec 8, 2003 2:41AM PST

Looks like they mean it! O well Linux and Open Office begin to look better every day,,,be nice if more and more people feel that way!

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Re:End of life (this time for real) Microsoft reveals.
Dec 9, 2003 2:44AM PST

Four days after posting a note to a community site specifying its intent to retire a number of its flagship products as a result of the Sun Java lawsuit, Microsoft has decided to extend the cut-off date by a week.

On Monday, Microsoft posted a new note to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) community site, stating that the company is now planning to ax certain products from all Microsoft sales channels starting December 23.

Microsoft Watch