Last Updated on November 30, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
According to Microsoft’s announcement Server 2003 will reach it’s end of life on July 14, 2015. That means that there will be no more security updates which will leave your server and network increasingly vulnerable to hacking.
UPDATE Dec 2017
You have to be freaking kidding me. According to https://redmondmag.com/articles/2016/07/12/windows-server-2003-use-at-18-percent.aspx, Windows Server 2003 was still being used by 18 percent of the organizations in a survey by Spiceworks in 2016.
Analysis by Spiceworks, a provider of management solutions for IT pros, found an overall 18 percent market share for Windows Server 2003, based on June sampled data. In addition, 53 percent of organizations in its survey were running “at least one instance” of Windows Server 2003.
This is beyond negligence. I don’t know what else to say. Companies running Server 2003 well past it’s end of life with ANY personally identifiable information should be liable to the full extent of criminal and civil law.
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