Windows Server 2003 won't run major Microsoft apps

And the applications that won't work aren't paltry little applets but heavyweightware such as SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0, according to Microsoft.

Further, Windows Exchange Server won't work on Server 2003 including Exchange Server 2000 and Exchange Server 5.5, a report says on Techweb.

Microsoft has yet to release versions of some of the software, including Exchange Server, that will work on the latest products.

This all means corporate end users may face the usual Microsoft nightmare and will have to upgrade the whole lot before support starts to be withdrawn for the existing products.

It's a classic Microsoft wheeze, with other applications needing service packs or complex workarounds before Server 2003 will sing sweetly as part of a homogeneous whole.

Well, when we say homogeneous, we really mean heterogeneous, because although the promise of Microsoft Windows was to make everything interoperable in "mission critical environments", things have never looked more heteregeneous in the World of Vole. µ

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