Upgrade or Downgrade

[Benedictum]

My laptop is running WinXP Media Center Edition. I would like to know if
WinXP Pro would upgrade, downgrade or about equal in capabilities. Any
comments?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

WinXP Media Center Edition is already a superset of Windows XP Professional.
Therefore, there is no upgrade path.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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My laptop is running WinXP Media Center Edition. I would like to know if
WinXP Pro would upgrade, downgrade or about equal in capabilities. Any
comments?

 

[Bob I]

You would have to do a clean install, and you would lose the "extras"
that Media Center has over XP Pro. "But" you would be able to join domains!

 

[Tim Slattery]

WinXP Media Center Edition is already a superset of Windows XP Professional.

Except that Pro can join a domain and Media Center Edition cannot.

Therefore, there is no upgrade path.

True.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Didn't that change with MCE 2005?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My laptop is running WinXP Media Center Edition. I would like to know if
WinXP Pro would upgrade, downgrade or about equal in capabilities. Any
comments?

You would gain the ability to join a domain. You would lose all the
media-related features. Everything else would be the same.

Unless you need the ability to join a domain (hardly any home users
do), there is no value to doing this.

Also be aware that you can only get from MCE to Professional by doing
a clean installation.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My laptop is running WinXP Media Center Edition. I would like to know if
WinXP Pro would upgrade, downgrade or about equal in capabilities. Any
comments?

Transitioning from WinXP MCE to WinXP Pro is a _downgrade_.

WinXP Media Center Edition is a _superset_ (iow, it does
_everything_ WinXP Pro can do (except join a domain), plus contains
additional multi-media features) of WinXP Pro.

Windows XP Media Center Edition Home
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ehome/default.asp


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Bruce Chambers

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