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Vista Not Compatible With SQL Server

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the some-extra-patience-required dept.

kiran_n sent in an article by Fortune's Owen Thomas on Vista not being compatible with SQL Server. An excerpt: "But now Microsoft has a problem. Vista, its long-awaited update to the Windows operating system, can't run the current version of SQL Server. The company is working on a SQL upgrade that is compatible with Vista — called SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 2 — but it's in beta and can be licensed only for testing purposes. Microsoft hasn't set a release date for the new SQL program."

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  1. I believe... by ExploHD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That is called irony.

  2. Re:Why? by richi · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Did you actually read TFA?
    Before any more of you fire off an outraged e-mail informing me that Vista doesn't run SQL Server, go back and read the above paragraphs again: I'm talking about SQL Server 2005 Express, which is the desktop counterpart of SQL Server - not the server version.