What is Windows 2000 Executive?

[yukichigai]

I haven't seen any mention of it in a while (particularly anywhere that could lead to me aquiring a copy of it) but I know there's some sort of "Executive" edition of win2k. I know it can't be the "home" version of 2k, since the closest thing to that is ME (*shudder*) I haven't heard anybody mention it here so that's a no-go. Was it just some sort of exclusively business edition, or an early release name, what? Anybody know?

Oh yes, was there a "Win2k Corporate" edition?

 

[mikecel79]

The editions of Win2k were Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter. There is no Windows 2000 Executive or Corporate edition. I know during an install of Win2k it mentions the Windows 2000 Executive but that's it.

If you mean by a "Corporate" edition of one with no need to enter in license keys then yes there was for volume license users only but it is no different than the Professional version you can buy in the store.

And BTW Windows ME and Win2k don't have much in common except for the GUI.

 

[stephbu]

Hehehe - mikecel79 is most definitely right!

Corporate editions of Windows are volume licences for Win2K/XP Pro, and Win2K Svr (Standard, Advanced, Datacenter), Win2k3 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter)

The volume licence works like this - you buy one set of disks and say 100 user licences - you can install 100 times. The smallest unit I think you could get on volume licencing was a 5-user licence.

WinME definitely isn't WinXP Home too. Compared to Pro, XP Home lacks some of the networking and management features, and only works on single processor (w/ HT support).

The Windows 2000 Executive is this btw - a core NT Kernel subsystem that acts as a shim between Windows processes and the native OS. It is performs duties like memory allocation, resource management, and security checking.

You see it during setup and console-mode because all Win32 processes depend on it

Mark Russinovich (of SysInternals) did a series of great articles on how this and other pieces of the Kernel hung together for those interested in knowing more.

http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?IssueID=30&ArticleID=3025

 

[vegetation]

WinME was just Win98 series II: bloatware edition.

 

[yukichigai]

Ait, that explains it then. Thanks.

I didn't really mean a corporate-liscenced edition of it, just a version with the title "Corporate" as opposed to "Professional".

Yes, ME is only vaguely similar to 2k, but at the time that was what there was.

 

[Palek]

Originally posted by: vegetation
WinME was just Win98 series II: bloatware edition.

I am sure you meant Windows Memory-leak Edition.

 

[SoulAssassin]

The correct term for these are Select versions and they do not require a volume license when installing.