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WinXP Pro vs. MCE

Originally posted by: Hi
MCE2005 is built on XP Pro with the extra media capablities first hand experiance its better
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MCE is built on the XP code base with a feature set somewhere between home and pro + the MCE capabiliites.

Bill

 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Originally posted by: Hi
MCE2005 is built on XP Pro with the extra media capablities first hand experiance its better
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MCE is built on the XP code base with a feature set somewhere between home and pro + the MCE capabiliites.

Bill
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its built on XP Pro code because almost every program labels it Pro instead of MCE2K5
 
its built on XP Pro code because almost every program labels it Pro instead of MCE2K5
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You remain incorrect. Saying something is 'built on Pro' has no real meaning. It's built on the XP code base. Home, Pro, MCE, Tablet, etc are just flavors with different default and allowed capabilities, they are all built on the same code base. MCE is best described as having a feature set between home and pro. While it has remote desktop (from Pro), it has network credential storage not available (which is how Home ships).

Bill

 
I'm running MCE 2005 on my primary PC...

It IS Xp Pro, the instillation disk even says "Installing WinXP Pro" when you are copying system files to the HD

It just has some extra media related software integrated into the OS, and it comes with a new theme for windows. PIC of my desktop: Here
 
It IS Xp Pro, the instillation disk even says "Installing WinXP Pro" when you are copying system files to the HD
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Again, while it's a small technical point, it's not XP Pro. It's MCE. The feature set is slightly different (not counting the obvious MCE interface and components). I run tablet edition on my tablet, it's also not Pro but very similar. In that case it has all of the feature set of Pro plus the tablet functions. For MCE it has actually a couple places were pro functionality has been removed or disabled (like the credential store).

Bill
 
Originally posted by: airfoil
So does MCE support NTFS?
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Yes, the difference over Pro are lack of official domain support (as people have noted, you can add it to a domain, but you will break the extender functionality) and the credential store (cached network passwords) has been removed (unless your upgrading from MCE 2004 which had that functionality). All of the other XP home/pro features are there.

Bill

 
Originally posted by: Kensai
But is it worth using over WinXP Pro?
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I think that is the big question.

Unless you need some of the actaul media functions ( TV capture etc; ) then maybe..

Other than that, I would stick to Pro.
 
Originally posted by: bjc112
Originally posted by: Kensai
But is it worth using over WinXP Pro?
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I think that is the big question.

Unless you need some of the actaul media functions ( TV capture etc; ) then maybe..

Other than that, I would stick to Pro.
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Actually, I think the better question is:
Since MCE is cheaper, unless you need cached credentials or the ability to "officially" join a domain, why buy Pro?

Anyways, it looks like MS is going to fold the media capabilities of MCE into Longhorn, which I think is an awesome idea!
 
Originally posted by: Kensai
I can get both for free so I just want to know what will be more effective for an HTPC.
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Obviously MCE..... why do you keep asking the same Q in the same non-specific way? Unless you have a specific need for XP pro which has been explained already in the thread, or some application you want to run specifically that is not supported in MCE (whatever that would be I dunno)

If the HTPC specific hardware you want to use is not supported by MCE outright for media functions, it's essentially Win XP "mostly" pro, and you could use most any software you could use in Win XP. Then "if' you decided to add MCE specific supported hardware later on, you would have the native OS support...whats to decide?
 
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