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Topic: difference between win2k & xp

Posted By: salvenus
Subject: difference between win2k & xp
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 9:14am

Hello all,

I'm setting up classroom PCs for an instructor @ my community college. She said she wants the PCs dual booting with Win2K and XP. Her reasoning is that the students like using ASP in a Win2K environment better than XP.

I know 0 programming but my Spidey-sense tells me there's no difference. It would be awesome if someone could confirm -or- explain to me in laymen's terms what the difference is.

thanks in advance,

sal

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 12:23pm

There is no noticable difference and quite frankly I think the teacher does not know what she is talking about. You can match Windows XP's visuals almost to look like Windows 2000 which is stored in the Users Profile so applications will look just about the same. Some things are different like MDAC version by default.......

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 12:49pm

I agree with Michael, Win2k Pro and XP Pro, when developing ASP are identical.

I myself use XP pro and developed many of the applications on this site, including the latest version of this forum on XP Pro.

The only other OS I have is RC2 of Windows 2003 server on my laptop, but I do very little development work on there, it's more just for testing for compatibility.

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Posted By: salvenus
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 12:58pm

She will be teaching IIS, PWS, Front Page and the Visual Studio 6 suite. Visual C++, J++, InterDev 6.0 etc...

Does it matter if she has them compile things via a command prompt?

Sorry in advance if I'm asking silly ?'s

sal

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 1:09pm

All should work on XP Pro.

You can tell how close Win2k pro and XP pro are by there OS identifcation numbers.

Win2k is NT5
XP Pro is NT5.1
Win2003 is NT5.2

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 1:10pm

The only way you will have extra functionality is if you install Win2k server, as you will have the benefit of a full server OS.

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 1:38pm

Watch out for XP guys, some dodgy liscence stuff in there!

Posted By: salvenus
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 1:54pm

We have a "campus agreement" with microsoft. As far as I know, we have carte blanche with installations of OS and Visual Studio. Is there something specifically, we should be aware of?