[Discuss] WANTED: used Win2K+ for a VM

[Gary Gauthier]

Darren,

would a "time-bombed" (180 days iirc) free version of W2K do?

Ttyl, Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: Darren Duncan <darren at DarrenDuncan.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2006 11:26 pm
Subject: [Discuss] WANTED: used Win2K+ for a VM

> Hello,
> 
> We haven't run Windows at home to date, but now we need to run a 
> new 
> Windows-only program, Quickbooks Premier.  The stated requirements 
> for the current 2006 version are Win2K or XP (2007 should be out 
> soon, but I don't know its requirements yet, and am assuming the 
> same).  I just want to get the simplest and cheapest solution, so 
> it 
> seems that Win2K is the best bet here.
> 
> While it is conceivable that Wine will run this program, I can't 
> assume that is the case now, and the Quickbooks user (not me) is 
> not 
> very technical and not a good person to be stuck with debugging it 
> over Wine, so while we may use Wine later, for now we plan to use 
> the 
> Parallels VM and a copy of Windows, which is orders of magnitude 
> more 
> likely to just work.
> 
> Now, since Win2K is 7 years old and was superceded with WinXP 5 
> years 
> ago, I'm assuming that there are a lot of unused Win2K install 
> disks 
> and licenses out there.  Though some XP may not be in use either.
> 
> I do not want to buy a new copy, since I prefer to reuse a license 
> rather than sending more money to Microsoft.  (I also discovered 
> that 
> the cheapest new version is about $250 (XP Home, non-upgrade), 
> which 
> is way more than I want to pay.)
> 
> If any of you have an unused copy or Win2K+, or know of someone 
> who 
> does, please contact me ASAP so I can buy it.  Or alternately, let 
> me 
> know if you know how I should go about in general to find one.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> -- Darren Duncan
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