Here is a link to the needed system requirements for Visual Studio .NET 2003. In short, it looks like you will need XP or 2000.

This is the email i sent out to you the other day about e-academy:
here are some notes from the staffer here:
Each student is allowed to download the software once. We can authorize another download if needed. (but, please keep this to a minimum)
The MSDN documentation is a seperate install. It's not a necessary part of Visual Studio so the students can just skip it for now.
One small problem, when you download Visual Studio it copies an executable first. This executable then downloads the cd image. The problem is that Mozilla/Netscape doesn't seem to rename the file correctly. If a student does use it then they have to rename the file to have a .exe extension. For some reason IE does it automatically.

Visual Studio Project 3

• 60 points
• work in groups of 2
• Assigned: October 8, 2004
• Due: November 4, 2004 at 9:30am
• Screen Shots Due: October 26th, 2004 at 9:30am--hard deadline
  2 jpg screen shots worth 6 points of the 60 points for the project:
  implemented welcome screen with all 3 languages your team is using
  implemented search screen with any language your team is using
• project 3
• Input data as database and text
• line by line description of how to link up the database i gave you to visual studio .net 2003
• an sql tutorial
• an offsite link to help you with sql in visual studio .net
• a student recommended translator
• if you are using french or spanish to learn the language
• babelfish for translations
• VC++ tutorials
• FAQTs you might find some help with Visual Basic here

• 30 points
• Assigned: September 23, 2004
• Due October 7, 2004 at 9:30am
• project 2
• Pictures of everyone's projects
• General Comments

Visual Studio Project 1

• 10 points
• Assigned: September 16, 2004
• Due September 23, 2004 at 9:30am
• project 1 and as a pdf
• Everyone's projects
• General Comments