So I just bought Win XP Pro...

[Fox5]

I think I can do remote desktop(what is it, how does it work, does ms at least compress the data before sending it? I'd imagine a powerful computer or maybe a multi cpu computer or one with a video card capable of encoding might be able to compress it before sending it out?), what else is different?

 

[jerryjg]

Waste your money instead of waiting 3 months for Longhorn to be released.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I think there's a FAQ on this.

 

[Fox5]

Longhorn isn't being released in 3 months is it?

 

[Parkre]

Agreed, waste of money now, unless you spent less than 40ish for it. You could have just spent time using the longhorn beta's until the final version.

 

[mdchesne]

i think pro just has more networking capabilities and software for servers or admins... nothing a home user would need

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

:sun:

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: jerryjg
Waste your money instead of waiting 3 months for Longhorn to be released.

Longhorn is well over a year off.

 

[Genx87]

Longhorn probably wont make it out before 07. Anyways Pro allows for IIS to be installed and you can join it to domains.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

:sun:

:thumbsup:

 

[Varun]

Longhorn will be at least a year, and even then it's not like XP is going to go away any time soon.

Pro's most useful feature to me is Remote Desktop.

You also get a limited version of IIS if you want to set up a website off your home PC.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Parkre
Agreed, waste of money now, unless you spent less than 40ish for it. You could have just spent time using the longhorn beta's until the final version.

Well, if I knew were to get them.... that and Longhorn has higher memory requirements...

Besides, I tried the Windows 2003 full trial version a little while back, I would have gone back to it except I found it had software incompatibility problems. Mainly it hated Creative's Audigy software to an extreme degree.

Anyhow, I bought pro mainly because my college strongly recommended it(for 'networking') and because I wanted to try out the remote desktop feature.

 

[Stan]

I'd use VNC instead of RDC.. save the money. I love selling college kids copies of Windows XP.. I easily make $1k at college time. And they are none the wiser. I always tell people that it wont change anything, and they REALLY REALLY dont need it.. But they still have me upgrade it.

Lols.

 

[silent tone]

If you have any choice, don't use VNC over RDC. The performance of Terminal Services makes VNC look like Morse code. There are a few other things I've found that weren't listed on that link, like a missing policy editor, lack of support for "pro" software like enterprise editions of Visual Studio, Virtual PC, etc.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Stan
I'd use VNC instead of RDC.. save the money. I love selling college kids copies of Windows XP.. I easily make $1k at college time. And they are none the wiser. I always tell people that it wont change anything, and they REALLY REALLY dont need it.. But they still have me upgrade it.

Lols.

What's VNC and how's it different?