Windows 2003 Server Corporate Edition Released

#1 TwiGGyr2003 on 06 Apr 2003 - 17:43

well we know what this means

#2 oqwarrior on 06 Apr 2003 - 17:54

About time

(2 replies) #3 Tim on 06 Apr 2003 - 18:01

wow luv the theme thats being used

#3.1 Arkos Reed on 06 Apr 2003 - 18:04

#3.2 Huy on 07 Apr 2003 - 03:20

[neoquote=#3.0 by Tim]wow luv the theme thats being used

[/neoquote] i know this is off topic, but what theme is that please? and/or where can i find it? thanks. (way to go with win2003 corp!)

Edit oops just found it! [vs] Aquafied Luna in completed Visual Styles, sorry

(1 reply) #4 mwanderansee on 06 Apr 2003 - 18:33

[COLOR=red]

#4.1 fdiaz2day on 06 Apr 2003 - 18:42

[neoquote=#5.0 by mwanderansee][COLOR=red][/neoquote] yea you start with that then insert text and finish off with [/color]

edit: crap it didn't show up...lol

(4 replies) #5 syscrash2k on 06 Apr 2003 - 18:40

Whats the build number? (just wondering)

#5.1 wI-OSMAN- on 06 Apr 2003 - 18:43

5.2.3790

#5.2 fdiaz2day on 06 Apr 2003 - 18:43

I believe it is the same as the RTM/Final but it just has a different title...

#5.3 Jason on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:16

Nope its down to the licencing only, name stays the same.

#5.4 kainashi on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:41

[neoquote=#5.0 by syscrash2k]Whats the build number? (just wondering)

[/neoquote] 3790.

#6 tagler on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:09

#7 reaper1576 on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:14

dam i miss my select agreement

#8 Chris123NT on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:31

. Let the games begin

(7 replies) #9 mwanderansee on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:41

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#9.1 Kombatant on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:52

[neoquote=#9.0 by mwanderansee]I,m very new at this, But I like,your actions in the ideas ,"0," tolerance," It's, what brought me to,finding out,MORE and things realy started cauhting my intrestes. found by mistake, but the Concept iN your Ideas, and,"better," where It could lead, I think I' found a little of home base,here, " THAN K YOU, for this oppertonaty in this, Hope when thing get more of a understanding in the computor world, I'll be able to give some help in return. this is very good ,,,,,,,,,,,,yes ,lot better..............KItty and Michael wil cloes injust a big HI!!![/neoquote]

#9.2 oqwarrior on 06 Apr 2003 - 19:57

[neoquote=#9.0 by mwanderansee]I,m very new at this, But I like,your actions in the ideas ,"0," tolerance," It's, what brought me to,finding out,MORE and things realy started cauhting my intrestes. found by mistake, but the Concept iN your Ideas, and,"better," where It could lead, I think I' found a little of home base,here, " THAN K YOU, for this oppertonaty in this, Hope when thing get more of a understanding in the computor world, I'll be able to give some help in return. this is very good ,,,,,,,,,,,,yes ,lot better..............KItty and Michael wil cloes injust a big HI!!![/neoquote]

#9.3 creamhackered on 06 Apr 2003 - 20:05

[neoquote=#9.0 by mwanderansee]I,m very new at this, But I like,your actions in the ideas ,"0," tolerance," It's, what brought me to,finding out,MORE and things realy started cauhting my intrestes. found by mistake, but the Concept iN your Ideas, and,"better," where It could lead, I think I' found a little of home base,here, " THAN K YOU, for this oppertonaty in this, Hope when thing get more of a understanding in the computor world, I'll be able to give some help in return. this is very good ,,,,,,,,,,,,yes ,lot better..............KItty and Michael wil cloes injust a big HI!!! [/neoquote] wha?

#9.4 JaggedFlame on 06 Apr 2003 - 20:07

lmao wtf

#9.5 Jason on 06 Apr 2003 - 23:37

err, ok

#9.6 |Creeper| on 08 Apr 2003 - 17:26

[neoquote=#9.0 by mwanderansee]I,m very new at this, But I like,your actions in the ideas ,"0," tolerance," It's, what brought me to,finding out,MORE and things realy started cauhting my intrestes. found by mistake, but the Concept iN your Ideas, and,"better," where It could lead, I think I' found a little of home base,here, " THAN K YOU, for this oppertonaty in this, Hope when thing get more of a understanding in the computor world, I'll be able to give some help in return. this is very good ,,,,,,,,,,,,yes ,lot better..............KItty and Michael wil cloes injust a big HI!!![/neoquote] You want to help, learn to write in english... I mean, readable english... I mean... You know what I mean...

#9.7 CdCViRus on 08 Apr 2003 - 18:07

yo, d00d, will ya stop posting bull$h!t??

#10 SouL2kEEp on 06 Apr 2003 - 20:24

this is the windows version that doesnt need ACTIVATION innit?

(3 replies) #11 jkuy9 on 06 Apr 2003 - 21:34

Microsoft keep going on about piracy and wanting to stop it and then they go and release something a VLK edition of software which to be honest doesnt really need it. VLK is just to speed up mass deployment, something that isnt going to be a huge problem for companies as, if they have a decent sys admin, they will do a rollout of the new server OS and not upgrade them all at once, which means not having to activate will cause no real benefit. Just my 2c. Before anyone asks or calls me an idiot I work for a large corporation and although I am not the system administrator I have written guidelines for systems deployment within the business. So anyone saying companies will be upgrading there servers in one big server deployment has no idea of how a company goes about deployment or works at a company whos sys admin is a 16 year old kid with an MCSE who wants to setup a Windows 2003 Server as soon as possible! (no flame way please).

#11.1 creamhackered on 06 Apr 2003 - 21:59

I do understand your point of view and I share it too. However most of Microsofts customers for Windows Server 2003 at the moment are large scale corporations such as intel who were testing alongside Microsoft in 2k3's development stages. For there not to be a corp version for large clusters of servers is not a good idea for such corporations and its always good to offer a Volume Licence version as an option.

#11.2 y_notm on 07 Apr 2003 - 00:51

you also have to take in the fact that VLKs aren't just for a way around activation. A company needs a license for every computer that uses the software, and for companies with dozens of servers a VL is much cheaper than buying dozens of licenses for windows. Corporate/VL was around long before XP, it just didn't get as much recognition because there was NO difference on products like Windows 2000 that didn't require activation

#11.3 jkuy9 on 08 Apr 2003 - 20:44

[QUOTE]Corporate/VL was around long before XP, it just didn't get as much recognition because there was NO difference on products like Windows 2000 that didn't require activation [/QUOTE] Yes I know the licenses are an issue for companies and that it is cheaper for them to buy a VL than say 500 retail licenses, however my point is that automatic activation is not needed, basically it is helping to promote piracy, how much news coverage has there been on a VLK in the past day or so? LOADS, it is promoting it to people who did not know about it before. If Microsoft want to stop people pirating their software they shouldn't enable things like automatic activation, like you said a VLK doesn't mean it just bypasses activation it means you have a Volume License, it doesnt (well it isn't ment to but this is what most people think) mean that you have a copy of Windows that activates itself!

#12 ike on 06 Apr 2003 - 22:48

so much for the people who swore that MS wouldn't do this for 2003 server. guess this kinda flies right in their faces!

#13 Michael Lerner on 07 Apr 2003 - 00:24

hehehe defeats M$'s 'strategy' of keeping down piracy, they may as well remore wpa from future version.

#14 mscrackcenter on 07 Apr 2003 - 02:04

Let the games begin

(1 reply) #15 acbd on 07 Apr 2003 - 06:50

too bad there arent corp versions of Windows XP Media Center Edition

#15.1 Quick Reply on 07 Apr 2003 - 06:57

LOL.... That would be awesome....

mmm... DME on all school computers

#16 rseiler on 07 Apr 2003 - 07:05

Is it new for MS to offer downloads for Select users? I was only aware of the monthly shipments.

(2 replies) #17 mhtndm on 07 Apr 2003 - 16:25

FAKE.....the Microsoft File Transfer Manager cannot allow 2 ACTIVE downloads at once. What a bunch of chumps to think this is real. Also thier naming sceme for the ITEM name never ends with .exe your site is being played for chumps ha ha ha ha ha ha

#17.1 SA-X on 07 Apr 2003 - 17:21

The second download is suspended you goon

#17.2 wd40 on 08 Apr 2003 - 03:17

[neoquote=#17.0 by mhtndm]FAKE.....the Microsoft File Transfer Manager cannot allow 2 ACTIVE downloads at once. What a bunch of chumps to think this is real. Also thier naming sceme for the ITEM name never ends with .exe your site is being played for chumps ha ha ha ha ha ha

[/neoquote] Maybe Select and Worldwide Fulfillment customers get a different download and you're not special enough to see that.

#18 entropyx on 08 Apr 2003 - 20:56

Yeah I agree with Mhtndm. Not real, news post was yanked from their site (It appears)

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