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Alright!! Spill the beans - Beta Testing

C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-07-20 2:32 PM
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Which one of you cherubs is beta testing MS Longhorn

I'm seeing MSIE 7 traffic on the servers, so that's good news.

My beta program invite seems to have gotten lost in the post


So while we wait for someone to fess up and tell us if ActiveSync still works with it... anyone else doing any beta testing at the moment?
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It's not me!



I'm using Server 2003 (mmmmmmmmmmmmm)
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-07-20 3:22 PM
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2003 R2 here
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cmonex Page Icon Posted 2005-07-20 4:46 PM
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is server 2003 better than XP?
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-07-20 5:01 PM
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Not as a workstation, it's designed to be a NOS or an application server. As a server, it's superior to 2000 server
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Snappy! Page Icon Posted 2005-07-20 7:46 PM
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Me on Windows XP /SP2.
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C:Amie - 2005-07-20 3:01 PM

Not as a workstation, it's designed to be a NOS or an application server. As a server, it's superior to 2000 server


It's actually a VERY respectable workstation OS (once you fiddle with it), I find that it's quite a bit more stable than XP Pro ever was for me - though of course you do lose some compatability with this.
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-07-21 8:30 AM
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Oh dear, you're one of these people that persons of my profession laugh at a lot for running a NOS as a workstation. Each to their own
It does have a different kernel version, and arguably can be more stable - not that I have probelms with XP.
The driver database is cut back on it, and there's a lot of disabled features. You also lose a fair bit of the workstation.

Above all though, it's 4 times more expensive
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C:Amie - 2005-07-21 6:30 AM

Oh dear, you're one of these people that persons of my profession laugh at a lot for running a NOS as a workstation. Each to their own
It does have a different kernel version, and arguably can be more stable - not that I have probelms with XP.
The driver database is cut back on it, and there's a lot of disabled features. You also lose a fair bit of the workstation.

Above all though, it's 4 times more expensive


That it is. My previous employer decided they weren't moving to 2003 and fobbed off their one copy on me - then promptly forgot about it when they laid me off

And yes, I'm one of those people
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corporate - 2005-07-21 1:59 AM

It's actually a VERY respectable workstation OS (once you fiddle with it), I find that it's quite a bit more stable than XP Pro ever was for me - though of course you do lose some compatability with this.


oh, you had problems with XP Pro stability? i'm surprised
i was thinking of 2003 some time ago, but then i realized that it couldn't give me more stability than that i already have with XP
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-07-21 9:57 AM
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hahaha.
You should set yourself up a server for real and have some network fun.

Or you could donate it to us
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