Development machine running Windows 2003 Server Web Edition?

Published 02 March 04 02:00 PM | alexcampbell

My development machine (currently running WinXP) has developed some extremely annoying habits.  As a solution, I am thinking of installing Windows 2003 Server Web Edition.  I am aware of the limitations with Web Edition, but I don't think they will be a problem.

Does anyone have any experience with using Win2k3 Web Edition for a development machine?  I just use it for VS.Net/SQL Server administering etc.

Comments

# Mike Sax said on March 1, 2004 11:05 PM:

Be careful... there's no print sharing support and you cannot upgrade to any other edition of Win2K3 if you change your mind later on. Also, some driver software refuses to install because it doesn't recognize the OS (even though the driver should run just fine).

# Oddur Magnusson said on March 2, 2004 07:43 AM:

You can't run sql server on it !

But i've used it succesfully when doing webfarm testing