full-disclosure - No more windowsupdate for Windows 2000 Server Family?

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From: irwanhadi at phxby.com (Irwan Hadi)
Subject: No more windowsupdate for Windows 2000 Server Family?

I've just visited http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com to update my
Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server, and I got this everytime I went
there (with latest IE 6.0, etc. I just want to get the last IE and MDAC
updates):

========================================
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/thanks.asp

Thank you for your interest in Windows Update

Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the
most out of your computer.

The latest version of Windows Update is available on computers that are
running Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows
Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 (except Windows 2000 Datacenter
Server), Windows XP, and the Windows Server 2003 family.

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When I tried to open windowsupdate from my Windows 2000 Professional
box, it works fine. Now are the Windows 2000 server families can't use
windowsupdate anymore or what? I think Microsoft should give the server
families higher priority than the desktop family since if the server is
down, there are more desktops can't access the things they need to do,
then if one desktop is down!!!