Embarrasing question

[ctower]

Does someone know when MS will pull the plug on support for Server 2003 and SBS Server 2003? I admin. two small networks using the aforementioned OSes and need to do some future planning. Thanks, sorry if the ? is kinda lame!


Clinton

[tehboris]

Mainstream support until 13 July 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_2003

[tokenuser]

Rule of thumb for MS products regarding support is "current and most previous major release". As the current major release is nearing its sunset phase, the will stop releasing service packs for the previous major release - EXCEPT for security issues (hotfixes).

They broke that model with XP though, extending support as a response to the Vista issues.

[bandit]

yup
and just in case here is some FYI's

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&x=11&y=13&C2=1173

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/