By Mark Burnett

Someone once asked Pable Picasso which one of his many paintings was his favorite. His reply: the next one. Ask Steve Ballmer which version of Windows is the most secure and guess what his answer will be?

I noticed that Microsoft is ready to release Security Rollup 5 for Windows 2000. It's not a service pack, it's more of a convenience pack -- all the hotfixes since SP4 rolled up into one big install. This precedes the end of mainstream support for Windows 2000, which runs out the end of this month.

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