An apple is a fruit but a fruit is not an apple.
A security fix *could* be called an update but an update is not a security fix. When you cut off feature enhancements such as the next version of ie or windows media player, not to mention functional features within windows itself it is not longer a supported operating system.
All of this ignores my point that if you wanted to keep an environment homogeneous you could not longer do it by getting PCs from your OEM and worst of all XP was, at that time, slated to suffer the same fate not more than 1 year and later. Thankfully MS's complete inability to get vista out anywhere near its scheduled date has extended that to a more reasonable window.
We could have discussed the merits of their schedule but not you, not when you could latch onto a disagreement about the definition of supported OS. Heck that could have been a decent civil thread but in reality trying to have such a conversation with you is throwing pearls to swine.. I have on other occasions than this given you the chance to back up and have that conversation but you are not interested in talking..
LOL, you're still lying about it!
Go back and look at the original thread title again:
"MS issues final software update for Win2K"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434031/posts
That indicates there will be no more updates, at all, for Windows 2000. In that thread, I immediately exposed the lie, just like I always do when you boys post your bunk from overseas websites.
You started lying some more, claiming that security "patches" and "hotfixes" were not "updates".
LOL, look at this comment:
"No you'll be patching your systems for five years like everyone else, thats not updating!"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434031/posts?page=44#44
Or this one LMAO:
"a hotfix != an update."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434031/posts?page=48#48
Funniest of all, you roll out a link to Microsoft, where the word "update" is defined:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434031/posts?page=50#50
What does that link say? Quote:
Software Update Definition: A software update is any update, update rollup, service pack, feature pack, critical update, security update, or hotfix that is used to improve or to fix a software product that is released by Microsoft Corporation.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=824684
LMAO! Now here today, months later, you're still lying about it, and your latest incarnations in this thread are just as hilarious!
""a security update is not the definition of an update"
and
"an update is not a security fix".
Hysterical! N3WBI3 is working hard on his upgrade to his BSCE, he's actually the pilot for the new program LOL!