End of Line
Jun. 27th, 2003 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerA Neowin article reminds me that NT4 ceases being supported at the end of June.
Guess what pretty much the whole of Standard Life's desktops are?
Guess what pretty much the whole of Standard Life's desktops are?
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Date: 2003-06-27 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-27 02:50 am (UTC)It's now June...
Oh, and we're using IE5.0, which is bug-filled, doesn't have lots of fixes that protect against known hacks and is generally recommended against use...
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Date: 2003-06-27 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-27 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-27 02:30 am (UTC)I'll stick to my ZOS....
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Date: 2003-06-27 02:48 am (UTC)Converting NT apps to XP should largely take no work at all. Unless you're doing deep, dark, operating system stuff (anti-virus, for instance), your app should just work.
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Date: 2003-06-27 02:47 am (UTC)January 1, 2004 Beginning on this date, non-security hotfixes are no longer available.
January 1, 2005 Beginning on this date, Pay-per-incident and Premier support will no longer be available. This includes security hotfixes.
January 1, 2005
(or later) Online support will no longer be available.
Note the (or later), these dates have already moved several times and will quite possibly move again. The fact is that large sections of the Industry are still lurking about on NT4 server. MS would dearly love to remove support so they can focus on 2k and 2003, but as long as large swathes of companies still use it, it will be supported.
Current details of NT4 retirment are here.
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/ProductInfo/Availability/Retiring.asp
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Date: 2003-06-27 02:52 am (UTC)I have no idea what our servers are, but I think we're on some kind of Novell, as it's Novell logins that we see, and Novell's Application Launcher that my programs are all available through...
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Date: 2003-06-27 03:49 am (UTC)Frankly I have little sympathy for companies who don't keep up to date then get all shocked when MS withdraw support for old apps. It doenst mean you have to stop using it, you just have to spend a bit more money and effort supporting it. On the plus side there's a huge pool of data and ability out there to draw upon.
Its like owning an old car, the manufacturer won't keep making spares forever, so you have to use third parties. This is more expensive and awkward, but thats the price you pay for using older stuff. The same is true for nearly anything complicated that you buy, from a PC to a washing machine.
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Date: 2003-06-27 04:35 am (UTC)Bandwidth constraints would stop them doing all 11,000 PCs in one night, certainly, but you could easily do a heck of a lot of them at once...
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