Office 2000 downloads retired?

[fraggle rock]

Source here (http://news.com.com/2100-1014-5116216.html)

What gives? I know the product itself is not retiring, but it says a number a related patches and tools will be? Why would they retire patches before the product? Also, I can not discern if they only mean MSDN downloads as "and other channels" followed up the whole statement. Does anyone know if they will be removing "Office Update" downloads? I downloaded SR-1a and SR-3 just in case, but I would like to know if I should take the time to find all the recent updates as well.

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[Prince_Serendip]

;) That is correct!

-{ Quote: "Due to a settlement agreement reached in January 2001, the following products are being phased out and will no longer available to customers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads or other channels at Microsoft. These products will be removed from MSDN Subscriber Downloads as of December 15th, 2003.

Office XP Developer
Visio 2000
BackOffice Server 2000
Office 2000 Developer
Office 2000 Tools
Office 2000 Multilingual
Office 2000 Premium SR-1
Office 2000 Service Pack 2
Outlook 2000
Project 2000
SQL Server 7
SQL Server 7 Service Pack 3
Embedded Visual Tools 3.0
Visual Studio 6 MSDE
IE 5.5
MapPoint 2002
Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 and SP5
Windows 98
Windows 98 Y2K
Windows 98 Resource Kit
Windows 98 SP1 (all win98 except SE)
Windows NT 4.0
ISA Server 2000
Visual Basic for (Alpha Systems)

The following product will be updated with Java-compliant versions before
the 12/31/03 deadline:


Office XP Professional with FrontPage
Publisher 2002
Windows NT 4.0
Small Business Server 2000
--
Andy Boyd
Program Manager
MSDN Subscriber Downloads" }-

-{ Quote: "Four days after posting a note to a community site specifying its intent to retire a number of its flagship products as a result of the Sun Java lawsuit, Microsoft has decided to extend the cut-off date by a week.

On Monday, Microsoft posted a new note to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) community site, stating that the company is now planning to ax certain products from all Microsoft sales channels starting December 23." }-

Microsoft Expects To Meet Java Deadline (http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3286681)

Better hurry and get those backup downloads!