Talk:Windows 2000/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

SBS 2000

I'm not very familiar with the hierarchy, but shouldn't SBS 2000 at least be mentioned in this article? --Resplendent (talk) 17:22, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

"To date, its encryption has not been compromised."

But very misleading. The encryption algorythm hasn't been compromised, but the Windows 2000 EFS has been compromised, through the recovery agent. This only requires a reboot using downloadable software, so shouldn't there be at least a note saying that the system has been broken? 218.214.18.240 (talk) 02:15, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

WPA

any chance of a note on lack of WPA, and solutions.. ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.107.93.248 (talk • contribs) 00:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Windows 2000 (and earlier versions of Windows) never included Windows Product Activation (WPA) meaning that users any install the OS on literally any PC whatever it's a retail or OEM product. Windows XP and onwards has WPA to cut down on software piracy thus making it difficult, if not impossible to reinstall the OS on another PC. --74.42.185.134 (talk) 04:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

"Interruptible"

Just a question: what does the article mean when stating that

Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K) is a preemptive, interruptible, graphical and business-oriented operating system

? What does it mean? That the system can be interrupted, or that it interrupts itself because of failures? It's the only Windows article that I've noticed this statement. --WKMN? Later [ Let's talk ] 21:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

An article called "Interruptible_operating_system" is available, read it. 1() (talk) 09:53, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

When NT was first introduced, the client OS Win3.1 was a cooperative, non-interruptible multi-tasker. Any task could open and run for as long as it wanted without giving control back to other apps or the OS. The lead sets up those distinctions. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Datacenter

Missing image of Windows 2000 Datacenter box is here. Please add it to Windows 2000#Editions. 79.191.250.92 (talk) 11:59, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Correct image uploaded. ㍐ (talk) 16:14, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. 83.30.141.84 (talk) 16:30, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The edition section has not been written completely....

as I have had hard copies of the evaluation editions purchased from one of the campuses of TAFE--222.64.30.66 (talk) 23:09, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Kernel improvements

There are MAJOR kernel changes in Windows 2000. The article completely lacks them, I wonder how this was a featured article in the past. - xpclient ^Talk 13:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit warring over status

Hey guys, is there a need to fight over the "proper" sentence structure of the status, be it "Unsupported as of..." or "Support ended on..."? Just come to a consensus that we'll all agree on, alright? NoNews! 13:23, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

We have only two options here: Support ended on 13th July or unsupported as of July 14th but not a mix of both as it was still supported on July 13th. While it's true W2k did not receive any new updates on July 13th it was listed by M$ as not affected. M$ would not have listed an OS that way if it's out of support on this date. --Denniss (talk) 14:06, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

The correct wording is "Unsupported as of 13 July 2010", meaning that support for Windows 2000 ended on 13 July 2010. However, other users have been fighting over the ability to change the wording of the support status whatever "support ended on 13 July 2010" or "unsupported as of 14 July 2010" as this will only lead to endless edit wars by other users. Windows 98 also has a correct wording of "Unsupported as of 11 July 2006" as well. I think that you might want to consider getting the admins to protect the article from being vandalised in a frequent matter. -- 74.42.188.45 (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Somebody should do something. the Microsoft Windows page said "Support ended on July 13", as I don't agree. Articles like Windows 95 and Windows 98 say "Unsupported as of (date)". Is there a need for Windows 2000 to say "Support ended on (date)" or say "Unsupported as of 14 July 2010". The Microsoft webpage says Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 says unupported on July 13, 2010. Mabye the page should be protected so registered users or admins should only edit it temporarliy? Mabye warn the user who edited the articles? --Quoladdie (talk) 14:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 ended on 13 July 2010 which means that the correct wording for Win2K is "Unsupported as of 13 July 2010", not "14 July 2010". I believe that the admins should protect both pages so that only a specified number of registered users can edit articles and should either warn or temporary block Denniss for aggressively engaging in edit wars. This is something that no one one wants if the edit warring continues. -- 74.42.188.45 (talk) 15:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

What's the source at Microsoft telling us these products were out of support on July 13th? Support ended on this day but was still available. Support ceased to exist on July 14th thus these products were effectivly unsupported on July 14th.. --Denniss (talk) 15:54, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Denniss, read Quoladdie's comment for the clarification. Anyways, I want you to stop the edit warring on this Windows 2000 article by changing the end-of-support date and its wording. I forgot to edit and put a extra colon which is one of the reasons why I failed to reply to your comment. -- 74.42.188.45 (talk) 17:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=Windows+2000&Filter=FilterNO, This link ahows you the lifecycle of Windows 2000 products. --Quoladdie (talk) 16:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the link. As this is not my article, no one wants to see people to change the wording or end-of-support date for Windows 2000 anymore.