On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Todd Lemmiksoo<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if R2 had been released at that time ...

  If R2 wasn't released when you bought Windows 2003, then you don't
have a license for R2, and cannot legally install it.  R2 is a
separate product you have to buy.  It's not a Service Pack or update.

  Your president is going to be approving another purchase soon.  :-)

  Microsoft could have called it "Windows Server 2005" instead of
"Windows 2003 R2".  In my opinion, they should have.  It would be a
lot less confusing.  "Windows 2008 R2" should also be "Windows 2009".
Or go back to version numbers.  Or hell, call them "Fred" and "Barney"
for all I care, but *be consistent*, for $DEITY's sake.  None of this
"sometimes a name, sometimes a year, sometimes a version number,
sometimes both at once" crap.

-- Ben

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