Source: PC World
Written By Lincoln Spector

Microsoft is ending mainstream support for the still-popular OS, but extended support will take care of many problems.

Rodney Upton manages some 4000 PCs for the three-campus Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario. These computers run on everything from Windows 95 to XP, but Upton estimates that about 50 percent boot Windows 2000.

This isn’t unusual. Windows 2000 is still the most popular operating system for business PCs, even three years after the introduction of Windows XP, according to a new report by AssetMetrix Research Labs.

Ironically, Microsoft is about to end mainstream support for this popular OS. But Windows 2000 users shouldn’t panic: The news is nowhere near as bad as it sounds.

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