I am looking for the best price I can find on Windows 2000 professional, can anyone give me a site that has good prices?

Hehe, I think you meant Windows 2000 Server OS. You don't want a noob with Windows 2000 Pro. Pro allows only 1 website to be hosted. Perhaps, you can simply say Windows 2000 host :D

I assume you mean windows 2000 server?

Originally posted by hotice007
You don't want a noob with Windows 2000 Pro.
Or liek the host I saw been run off Win98/Apache Win32/Rogers@Home Cable

no guys, I meant to replace win98, I'm ready to upgrade to win2000 professional b/c I heard it was nice.. now, any site's that I can find it cheap on?

Hmm... wrong forum to ask, but I don't think anywhere is cheap... maybe -/+ $10 difference.... you know MS products, they dont go cheap. Unless you umm *cough**pir8t*... :cartman:

:rolleyes:

You can get it for $145 OEM, if you're looking to buy a new harddrive, which you might as well, unless you want to pay the $299 regular price. Go to:

www.mwave.com

I just moved from an NT server (4.0 unlimited license) to Win 2K pro and it's a lot better. I make the point though, that I mean for home use or a network -- not for hosting. I'd not use Windows for a web host, but for personal use, Win 2K pro is the best I've seen and you don't have to deal with all the issues NT offers with it's driver incompatibilities, etc.

I got my copy of Win2000 Pro for free. :D

It's good to friends with illegal software. :stickout

Originally posted by Kyle Babich
I got my copy of Win2000 Pro for free. :D

It's good to friends with illegal software. :stickout

That's intelligent telling every one of the public here that you are using pirated software..:angry:

I didn't pay for mine either. Of course, this is the 'Corporation' or whatever edition, that is used for corporate systems and therefore doesn't have a license limit or require any registration numbers to install or use -- and as long as I am technically freelancing for them, it's fine. As soon as I get a new non-Winmodem modem, I'll be using Linux Slackware and FreeBSD for my home system anyway, (and that'll be very soon), so it's not like I'm trying to get away with anything -- but I agree it's probably not too smart to admit you have an illegal copy (then again, I seriously doubt it would result in anything or anyone would try and pursue it, but still).

Microsoft would probably be too busy to persue this, but he has just lost all my respect.

Peter

I also get copy of windows at only 1$ :)

Originally posted by ckpeter
Microsoft would probably be too busy to persue this, but he has just lost all my respect.

Peter

That was what I actually meant, personally I could careless if Microsoft would fall off the earth, but he is running some sort of business from his website (design I think) and who knows what other illegal software he uses to do his work that you pay for..

BTW Just FYI if you purchase something that was made with pirated software you are held liable as well even though you may not have known about it.. That why the legal jargon needs to be in writing to protect yourself..

It would be funny if Peeps at Microsoft are readiing this :)

Originally posted by Synergy
It would be funny if Peeps at Microsoft are readiing this :) It would be funny to see how angry somebody doing freelance web design using stolen software gets when somebody steals one of his site designs.

Originally posted by Synergy
It would be funny if Peeps at Microsoft are readiing this :)

It would be funny if anyone at MS visited web boards like this.

What started out to be a simple question about Windows 2000 Pro turns into a mud-slinging contest. :rolleyes: Did anyone even answer his question?

Anyway, maybe it's about time this thread was moved to the lounge. :)

Originally posted by mindboggle
What started out to be a simple question about Windows 2000 Pro turns into a mud-slinging contest. :rolleyes: Did anyone even answer his question?Yep. You must have skipped right to the mudslinging -- there were several on-topic answers at the beginning of the thread.