Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

[Scott]

My employer has been reluctant to embrace Windows XP - we
still have Dell OEM install Windows 2000 Pro on our
machines. However, the ability to do this looks to be
going away for good at the end of March 2004. My
tentative plan is to go directly to XP SP2 after that,
assuming it is available. The big issue for us is that we
will still be supporting at least 1, possibly 2, legacy MS-
DOS apps at that time. We appear to be having occasional
disk write concurrency issues from one of these programs
even on the latest Win2K Pro service packs, the prospect
of supporting them under XP is a bit daunting. Which
brings me to my point: I need to get my hands on a
preview/beta/whatever copy of WinXP SP2 as soon as I
possibly can, to begin testing. Any links or suggestions
that will allow me to do that (I do have an MSDN OS
subscription) Thanks in advance!

-Scott

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

My employer has been reluctant to embrace Windows XP - we
still have Dell OEM install Windows 2000 Pro on our
machines. However, the ability to do this looks to be
going away for good at the end of March 2004. My
tentative plan is to go directly to XP SP2 after that,
assuming it is available. The big issue for us is that we
will still be supporting at least 1, possibly 2, legacy MS-
DOS apps at that time. We appear to be having occasional
disk write concurrency issues from one of these programs
even on the latest Win2K Pro service packs, the prospect
of supporting them under XP is a bit daunting. Which
brings me to my point: I need to get my hands on a
preview/beta/whatever copy of WinXP SP2 as soon as I
possibly can, to begin testing. Any links or suggestions
that will allow me to do that (I do have an MSDN OS
subscription) Thanks in advance!

Hi

I think SP2 is about to go into beta real soon now...

To apply to be a beta tester, see 2. here:
http://www.microsoft.com/permission/copyrgt/cop-soft.htm#Beta