Windows 2000: Microsoft's most successful failure

Someone once asked Pable Picasso which one of his many paintings was his favorite. His reply: the next one. Ask Steve Ballmer which version of Windows is the most secure and guess what his answer will be?

I noticed that Microsoft is ready to release Security Rollup 5 for Windows 2000. It's not a service pack, it's more of a convenience pack - all the hotfixes since SP4 rolled up into one big install. This precedes the end of mainstream support for Windows 2000, which runs out the end of this month. Five years. Has it really been that long already? It doesn't seem that long ago that I was so eager to abandon NT4 and install the flashy new 2000. But a lot happened in those five years. The Internet changed, security has changed, and the world has changed.