Whats the difference?

[mrbios]

in microsoft volume licensing what is the difference between for example "windows vista business" "windows vista business N" "windows vistra business KN"

whats with all the letters at the end? i cant find anything saying what the damn difference is?

ive just discovered the login to our MVLS subscription at work (note: i am aloud the login being one of the technicians before anyone says naughty naughty)

EDIT: oh and what are the peoples opinions on winXP 64bit? pointless? any performance gain at all? suppose ill be playing games which arent coded for it so probably pointless

 

[mdjmcnally]

N and KN are the stripped down versions. N has no Media Player as default after EU case, and KN is I think for Korea.

XP64 is OK and works well. For most people probably pointless unless you happen to need 4Gb of RAM on your desktop. Then again if you are one of those people then you already have it running. I personally stuck with XP32 on my rig as not neccessary for my machine.

The main advantage I had was that it is based on Win2003 code rather then XP32 even sharing the same SP2 release as Win2003, it seeming to be more stable when using XP64 as a Home Server for VMWare. Built it on a board with XP64 but no Win2K3 drivers and it worked fine.