Microsoft scraps plans for Windows 2000 SP5

Microsoft has scrapped plans for Windows 2000 Service Pack 5.

Instead, the software giant announced that a Windows 2000 Update Rollup will be released in mid-2005 to replace SP5 as the final security patch for the operating system.

According to a message posted on Microsoft’s Windows 2000 site, "The Update Rollup will contain all security-related updates produced for Windows 2000 between the time SP4 was released and the time when Microsoft finalizes the contents of the Update Rollup. The Update Rollup will also contain a small number of important, non-security updates."

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