Bloody Aria Technology....

[mcquiggd]

Optimisation for services. Improved network performance with multiple connections.

You can really pare down Windows 2003... and then it really screams. It makes a pretty good workstation OS - that's what I was using prior to XP x64.

[AtW]

Seems to me that nothing really improved big time - it seems to make sense only if you have more CPUs than Windows XP Pro supports (think 2 max?)

The thing that MOST pissed me off on 2003 is that it would insist on asking me for reason when I was rebooting it or shutting down - ffs, if _I_ ask to reboot then dont ask me stupid questions just do the job ffs!