XP or 2003 which is better for programmer ?

[Guest]

Hey
I am considering Win2003 Enterprise or Win XP professional as a OS to work
with VS 2003. Is there any difference for a programer ? I think probably most
of programmers are using WinXP Prof. with VS2003 ? I don't know if there are
any benefits from using Win2003 as a developer platform ( built in .Net gives
something ? ). The price doesn't matter because of MSDN subscription. Which
is faster and more stable ? I curious about your's opinion.
Jarod

 

[clintonG]

Noting I too have a MSDN subscription which makes it possible to have the
choices available I downsized from Windows 2003 Server (W2003) to XP Pro.
For the time being it is too costly for me to run W2003 as a dev machine.
The vendors that sell virus protection, defragging, backup, imaging and
'must have' utility software demand hundreds of $$$ for each application
when run on W2003 yet for XP Pro I can acquire each at $50 or $60 each. I
now run W2003 in Virtual PC only when needed and only then to learn ASP.NET
2.0.

I want and in some circumstances really need W2003 as IIS and other
'servers' that are bundled with W2003 really do provide benefits but only if
hosting your own applications as hosting providers marginalize those
benefit. So for now it is too risky and too costly for me to use W2003 as my
primary OS for development.

That's my two cents which I should be saving for disaster recovery instead
of spending on you ;-)

 

[Phil Taylor]

one decision point is - dont use W2k3 Server if you care about DX support.

 

[Sami Vaaraniemi]

Hey
I am considering Win2003 Enterprise or Win XP professional as a OS to work
with VS 2003. Is there any difference for a programer ? I think probably
most
of programmers are using WinXP Prof. with VS2003 ? I don't know if there
are
any benefits from using Win2003 as a developer platform ( built in .Net
gives
something ? ). The price doesn't matter because of MSDN subscription.
Which
is faster and more stable ? I curious about your's opinion.
Jarod

If you intend to develop server applications, then Win2003 server may be
better. XP has a limit of 10 concurrent incoming connections, so you can't
test web apps in real multi-user scenarios on XP.

Regards,
Sami