The Old Cows Are Put Out To Pasture

Wow, get them while they're hot... just got this in my newsgroup reader from mictosoft.public.msdn.general:

Due to a settlement agreement [with Sun over the MS Java VM] reached in January 2001, the following
products are being phased out and will no longer available to customers
through MSDN Subscriber Downloads or other channels at Microsoft. These
products will be removed from MSDN Subscriber Downloads as of December 15th,
2003.

Office XP Developer
Visio 2000
BackOffice Server 2000
Office 2000 Developer
Office 2000 Tools
Office 2000 Multilingual
Office 2000 Premium SR-1
Office 2000 Service Pack 2
Outlook 2000
Project 2000
SQL Server 7
SQL Server 7 Service Pack 3
Embedded Visual Tools 3.0
Visual Studio 6 MSDE
IE 5.5
MapPoint 2002
Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 and SP5
Windows 98
Windows 98 Y2K
Windows 98 Resource Kit
Windows 98 SP1 (all win98 except SE)
Windows NT 4.0
ISA Server 2000
Visual Basic for (Alpha Systems)

The following product will be updated with Java-compliant versions before
the 12/31/03 deadline:


Office XP Professional with FrontPage
Publisher 2002
Windows NT 4.0
Small Business Server 2000
--
Andy Boyd
Program Manager
MSDN Subscriber Downloads