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well my office machine has gone a bit nipples north so i need to reinstall windows, its had a bit of a beating with software lately

as i spend most of my time RDP'd onto servers i was thinking of installing server 2003 on this machine, it would make things easier for me to be using the same OS i interact with every day, also makes it easier to test things (and GP management doesnt appear to like XP very much which is one of my biggest annoyances)

but would it be a good idea? my machine is more than capable of handling it (e6600, 2gb ram etc - i was a bit cheeky when we got new office machines hehe) i think id still stick with 32bit R2 SP2 same as most of our servers are the same

i guess the only issue i can think of is if i have software incompatibilitys but most of the software i use is or has been installed on a server in the past (i think)

any opinions? im pretty sick of XP tbh and i dont want to goto vista for obvious reasons (its nice at home but its absolute pants on a network)
 
go for it. it's really only home anti virus/firewall/defrag type things that won't install on a server. practically everything else does.
 
mrbios said:
well my office machine has gone a bit nipples north so i need to reinstall windows, its had a bit of a beating with software lately

as i spend most of my time RDP'd onto servers i was thinking of installing server 2003 on this machine, it would make things easier for me to be using the same OS i interact with every day, also makes it easier to test things (and GP management doesnt appear to like XP very much which is one of my biggest annoyances)

but would it be a good idea? my machine is more than capable of handling it (e6600, 2gb ram etc - i was a bit cheeky when we got new office machines hehe) i think id still stick with 32bit R2 SP2 same as most of our servers are the same

i guess the only issue i can think of is if i have software incompatibilitys but most of the software i use is or has been installed on a server in the past (i think)

any opinions? im pretty sick of XP tbh and i dont want to goto vista for obvious reasons (its nice at home but its absolute pants on a network)
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If your office is willing to spend £400+ on your desktop OS then go for it.
 
its not £400 its £100 more, but i didnt realise that until abotu 15minutes ago, never realsed the way MVLS charged you, always assumed it was one mahoosive fee = unlimited usage for your company, what an absolute rip off

then again whats £100 more on a £10-15k a year payment? :p

i just want a change :( i hate XP now, while i could put vista on i can see me liking it for 5minutes then getting annoyed with its awful layout and file copying speeds (and dont say linux ;))
 
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Under Volume Licensing you're saying that Server 2003 licenses are only £100 more than Windows XP licenses??

What volume of licenses are you buying?
 
we have about 500-600 clients and 20-25 servers

Its the old IT manager who worked here before me that told me the prices (he now works at an IT consultancy company and does a few things for us) by his numbers we're paying £25 per XP license and £125 per 2003 license
 
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