Re: NT and security in the near future

From: JoelN (joelsn@nospam.com)
Date: 06/07/02 

From: "JoelN" <joelsn@nospam.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:40:55 -0400

I am not talking about me....just in general.
Not everyone who has NT or 98 will upgrade.
I have clients who will not upgrade the os until the software they use to
run ther business needs 2k/xp.

"James" <james.news@reather.com> wrote in message
news:uSWwyTiDCHA.1980@tkmsftngp04...
> "JoelN" <joelsn@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:3d00a806@news.sentex.net...
> > I am just wondering what alternatives there are to upgrading the
servers,
> > etc when MS stops providing patches for Windows NT/98 etc, in the near
> > future. I have a few clients who cannot/will not afford to upgrade just
> yet.
> > MS bashes need not respond.
>
> You've got one whole year (and three weeks!) until Win98 and NT4 stop
being
> supported....
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycleconsumer.asp
>
> ...perhaps you should be planning to migrate to [ Windows 2000 | Windows
XP
> | Linux | <some other OS> ] during the coming year?
>
> James
>
>
>
>

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