You can buy the full Professional version at a street price of about £250, as an upgrade from Windows 95/98 for about £170, and from Windows NT for about £100. The cheapest Professional version should suffice for all musicians, which is lucky, since the Server version starts at about £800, while the Advanced Server is more like £3000. There are three versions - Professional, Server, and Advanced Server - and which one you need depends on how many PCs you need to support. The remainder are for such things as MIDI I/O, graphic updates and the user interface.īefore I wade into the main issues that affect musicians, it's worth quickly going over the main features of Windows 2000. This uses nine threads: the most processor hungry at the top of its list is for audio processing, while disk I/O for audio playback is the bottom of the list, and takes much less power. To make it possible to divide any application's workload between multiple processors it needs to be split into threads, like Cubase VST 5.0, shown here.
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So, since it's now been almost a year since Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system was released, it's time to take a more considered look at its advantages and disadvantages for the PC musician. The most common industry advice with a new operating system release is to wait for at least a few months to let the lemmings discover the pitfalls before taking the plunge yourself. Most foolhardy are those who get hold of pre‑release beta versions of the very newest operating systems, either legitimately or via the back door, and try to use them not as intended - for in‑the‑field testing and feedback - but for serious music work. This is commonly referred to as the 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach, and is the reason why many musicians are still happily running Windows 95. Others look back on the time it took them to iron out operational problems with their current operating system, and how many tweaks they've needed to optimise it over the years, and leave well alone. Some buy it the day it comes out because they simply must have the latest version of everything. People differ greatly in the way they react to a new operating system release.
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But is there enough software support to make upgrading worthwhile? Martin Walker investigates. Microsoft's latest operating system, although primarily designed for business and network systems, seems to offer many features that are attractive to musicians, including greater stability and support for dual‑processor machines. Underneath, however, it uses a completely different engine, and this is what may cause problems with some software and hardware.
Musicians who upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional from Windows 98 will find that it looks much the same on the surface.
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