Re: Media Center 2005 question

From: Daniel (Daniel_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:45:03 -0700

I agree Mike, except in the instance of Developing for Media Center. It's
unreasonable to expect developers to develop in the XP Pro environment
(because you would in a business for management of these computers) and then
have to send the app off to some other machine to do intial tests on. I am
sure MicroSoft Developers aren't set that way.

"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" wrote:

> "Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@scriptpro.com> wrote in message
> news:OrIQu1FsEHA.2000@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Mike,
> >
> > The ability to join a domain was one of the major differences between XP
> > Pro
> > and XP Home. Are you saying that MCE 2005 is now based on XP Home and not
> > XP
> > Pro? This ability may not be needed in the home, but many professionals do
> > indeed have a domain at home, and many businesses apparently buy Media
> > Center PCs.
> >
> > Dana Cline - MVP
>
> Dana,
>
> No - I said it is still based primarily on Windows XP Professional - BUT
> that is now modified to no longer support Domain joining, so you shift you
> mind from the idea of MCE being based on top of anything to Windows XP Media
> Center Edition being a unique member of the Windows XP family of operating
> system products.
>
> Domain operation is not a common home use scenario and MCE is a consumer
> product and not targeted at the corporate desktop space, that is the
> province of Windows XP Professional.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]
>
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> "Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@scriptpro.com> wrote in message
> news:OrIQu1FsEHA.2000@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Mike,
> >
> > The ability to join a domain was one of the major differences between XP
> > Pro
> > and XP Home. Are you saying that MCE 2005 is now based on XP Home and not
> > XP
> > Pro? This ability may not be needed in the home, but many professionals do
> > indeed have a domain at home, and many businesses apparently buy Media
> > Center PCs.
> >
> > Dana Cline - MVP
> >
> > "Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:OdvePKEsEHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> "Oguz" <Oguz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:956790A8-0D68-4130-ADCC-76C1D41811F9@microsoft.com...
> >> > Is the MCE Windows XP Professional + MCE or Windows XP Home + MCE.
> >>
> >> All current Windows XP Media Center Editions are based on Windows XP
> >> Professional.
> >> However the 2005 version have been altered in that they no longer support
> > at
> >> least one feature of the Windows XP Professional base that is was
> > originally
> >> built upon. If you do a clean install you are no longer ale to join
> > domain.
> >> So in the context of MCE 2005 is it no longer accurate to refer to it as
> >> a
> >> super set of Windows XP Professional it is now a new variant of the
> > Windows
> >> XP family.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Mike
> >> --
> >> Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]
> >>
> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights
> >>
> >> Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use these
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> >>
> >> "Oguz" <Oguz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:956790A8-0D68-4130-ADCC-76C1D41811F9@microsoft.com...
> >> > Is the MCE Windows XP Professional + MCE or Windows XP Home + MCE.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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