It's kind of strange though, even prior to the end of mainstream support for W2K, and with SP5 apparently completed and about to be put on tap, MS canned it, and instead offered a collection of security patches only instead, in the form of one of their infamous "rollups". What about the bugfix patches that were part of SP5??? Those are actually more important to some of us, especially those that have their own firewall installed, and don't use IE or OE, and thus have no real need for 95% of the security patches that MS releases. But things like kernel-memory resource leaks in the USB stack, or faulty locking primitives in the SCSI port driver leading to race conditions - now those are the kinds of bugfixes that I need. It seems that in the case of W2K, MS decided to "close up shop and go home early", earlier than their previously-posted "store hours", if you know what I mean. The truth is, MS doesn't really care about their customers, any more than is required to keep them on the constant upgrade treadmill. If they did, there would have been an IE 6 SP2 update for W2K, there would have been a standlone IE7 with tabbed browsing update and working full PNG image support *years* ago, and most certainly, they wouldn't have dropped the W2K SP5 release, just like they did the NT4 SP7 release, years ago, in a bid to attempt to force customers to upgrade instead.