Risks of running a win2k environment (opinions welcome)

[Mr. Muster]

I am looking for some solid reasons against running a Windows 2000
environment now and past the extended support cutoff.

Any concerns, opinions, and risk examples are welcome. These will be used to
support the plans to implement a newer Operating System environment.

 

[Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]]

Hello Mr. Muster Mr.,

If you don't take care about support of course you can use it. But keep in
mind no security fixes will come and also you will run into driver problems
with new hardware.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[Sid Elbow]

But keep
in mind no security fixes will come and also you will run into driver
problems with new hardware.

It might be fair to point out that you may also run into driver problems
with the newest operating systems too. For example the HP forums are
full of people, who have upgraded to Windows-7, complaining that their
printers no longer work properly (or at all).

 

[Stubby]

It might be fair to point out that you may also run into driver problems
with the newest operating systems too. For example the HP forums are
full of people, who have upgraded to Windows-7, complaining that their
printers no longer work properly (or at all).

I've discovered a few things in trying to just keep my Win2K systems
operating. First, Microsoft continually tells me to get IE8, but of
course, that requires XP or more recent. Comcast advertises their
CallerID program, but it doesn't run on Win2K anymore (It once did!).
Finally, I have a little database program that I bought for $5 off a
rack years ago. I really like the program and use it to keep all my
contact info. It is ALWAYS able to produce a .csv or equivalent for
my valued contacts so I can import the data into the OS of the day.
Too bad, that database won't run on Win7-64.