[AccessD] VB.Net - seeing the messagebox

Mark,

Unfortunately of the Oss you mentioned only Windows 2000 even qualifies as a
stable OS.  Windows XP was supposedly built on the Windows 2000 platform and
is very stable, at least vs the other mentioned OSs.  Windows 2003 has IMO
been even more stable than Windows XP Pro which I used exclusively for
several years.

The only issue I have run into using Windows 2003 as opposed to XP is driver
issues.  For example my Brother Fax 2820 does not have drivers for Windows
2003 and refuses to install the XP drivers.  My experience has been that XP
drivers will work IF you can coerce the install package to install them.  If
the installer does not do an OS check sees 2003 as XP, the drivers have
always worked.

I truly like 2003 and thank those in this and the SQL Server group that
smacked me around until I installed it on my servers.


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] VB.Net - seeing the messagebox

I was also wondering this.

I have a desktop at home running 2000 Server...that has been running 24/7
for over 3 years.  Every 30 minutes it retrieves stock data files(via
FTP),unzips them, imports into Access, analyzes the data, does historical
comparison, then emails the data to a number of phones(if anything matches
criteria).

This is the only thing thing this box does aside from some periodic
development...and the only problems I have had was 1 hard drive
failure...and my email crashed...Neither an OS problem...other than
that...this thing has never had an issue.

By no means am I an expert on OS's...but of the 15 or so machines I've had,
running Win95,Win98,Win2000,Win ME(it came on the machine, not my
choice),and XP.....2000Server has been the most stable machine I have ever
had.

Just curious,

Mark A. Matte