Half Of Businesses Still Use Windows 2000

bonch writes "An AssetMetrix study shows that half of business are still running Windows 2000 four years after the release of Windows XP, and that usage of Windows 2000 has only decreased by 4% since 2003. Microsoft will officially stop supporting Windows 2000 by the end of this month, offering one last update rollup later this year. Windows XP's slower adoption illustrates Microsoft's difficulty in competing with the popularity of its own software platform, and makes it more difficult for Microsoft to convince people to upgrade when Longhorn is released late next year."

umm

[beatdown]

when Longhorn is released late next year

Yeak, okay...

Re:umm

[alexhs]

Longhorn has always been to be released late next year, you knew it, right ?

That's true

[Anonymous Coward]

And the other 50 % use NT 4.0

Re:And the other half?

[alexhs]

[...] not how long MS thinks its software should last.

Obviously, pre-2000 MS Software lasts 49.7 days [microsoft.com] straight :)

Re:Why upgrade?

[rudy_wayne]

"but never to Thunderbird - it doesn't do half of what Outlook does."

Right. Thunderbird only does the half that doesn't involve spreading viruses.

Reminders for January 2010

[ear1grey]

Reminders for January 2010

1. January 1st 2010, 10:00 Write obvious story about how over half of MS customers are still using XP Professional SP3!. Maybe use multiple exclamation marks.
2. January 1st 2010, 11:00 Write acceptance speech for election to the board of legends who have written similarly obvious stories about Win2K, WinNT4, WinNT3.51, Win98, Win95, Win3.11, Amiga Workbench 1.3, etc...
3. ###
4. Prophet

Re:Why upgrade?

[squidsoup]

I was raised to believe that you default to the more restrictive, so one has to take explicit actions to "open up" functionality which can potentially bite one in the ass.

Damn, I wish I had h4x0r parents like that. Mine just told me to brush my teeth, and get three square meals a day.

Re:umm

[Anonymous Coward]

It's in Microsoft years, which are a bit like those Microsoft minutes you see when deleting or copying files in windows XP