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salvenus 
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 Topic: difference between win2k & xp
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: 27 May 2003 at 12:23pm |
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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: 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: 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
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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
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Posted: 27 May 2003 at 1:10pm |
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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: 27 May 2003 at 1:38pm |
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Watch out for XP guys, some dodgy liscence stuff in there!
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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?
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