Windows of opportunity - closed

Windows operating systems seem to be prone to vulnerabilities of every description. We do our best to firewall our networks and virus-scan our PCs, but the security conscious consumer also applies security updates when they become available. These updates have been supplied, until now, via Microsoft's own "Windows Update" feature. So, it was particularly annoying this past week when ALL the PCs in the household were informed that Windows Update will only work with Windows 2000 or Windows XP. My still-not-old copy of Windows Me seems to be out of date (and me, out of luck) when it comes to getting the automatic updates.

Microsoft is clearly looking for another PR nightmare with this policy. Trying to muscle people into upgrading their operating systems just so Microsoft can deliver corrections to security flaws seems unfair. But, that's just my opinion. What do you think?