No Internet Explorer for Windows 2000

Well all those of you who have been die hard supporters of Internet Explorer from Micro$oft , here's another blow...

"With Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 set to debut next month, Microsoft has quietly closed the door on Windows 2000 users planning to adopt the new Web browser. IE7 will require Windows XP Service Pack 2 due to internal security changes that rely on Microsoft's latest operating system release."

IE program manager Christopher Vaughn said , "It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE7 for Windows 2000. One reason is where we are in the Windows 2000 lifecycle. Another is that some of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000."

Read more here : IE weblog

Oh gosh ! Oh gosh ! There goes the ticker of sarcasm for Micro$oft again !

My thoughts on this ?

This spells bad news for governments across the globe, as Windows 2000 is the predominant operating system in use today on these networks. With the hundreds of bugs and vulnerabilites on IE 6, users of Windows 2000 would eventually be forced to find alternative browsers (such as Firefox or Opera), or abandon the Windows operating system completely.

As for the geniuses who thought about IE7, CMYAZZ.