Xp Pro and corprorate

[Loren Kallwick]

I Have recently received a copy of WinXP Corporate. I am curious about
installing Corporate over Pro. What would be pro and con of using corporate?
Would I have to wipe drive? etc. Thanks for input. loren

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Microsoft never produced a version of Windows XP called "Corporate".
Please post back and describe the wording found on the CD you received.

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| I Have recently received a copy of WinXP Corporate. I am curious about
| installing Corporate over Pro. What would be pro and con of using corporate?
| Would I have to wipe drive? etc. Thanks for input. loren

 

[midnight]

The Pro and the corporate versions are the same. It's the license that's
different. There are only two versions of Windows XP, home and Pro.

Glen

 

[Phil]

The "corporate version" is the name that software pirates gave to the
Windows XP Pro version that has a volume license key(multiple installs). It
is xp pro, just with a different license.
If you have a "corp version" then you have a pirate copy of xp, have a xp
product key that ms has banned, and it may even be illegal to have.
If I were you I would not install a pirate version of xp and even if you did
you will gain nothing at all as xp pro = xp corp with a different license.

 

[Mousey Mick]

And as a plus - the Windows Updates won't work . . .

 

[kurttrail]

And as a plus - the Windows Updates won't work . . .

LOL! Only two VL keys won't work after installing SP1.

And I even gave somebody an url to download the keygen.

Hell, a person with a non-pirated version of XP has about as much chance
of not getting WinUpdate to work, as someone that pirated it.

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[Richard Urban]

That may change soon Kurt. I "think" I read somewhere that SP2 will be
looking at about 20 numbers.

Then there is the discussion as to whether or not Microsoft is going to
allow "everyone" to install SP2.

It's still very much up in the air! (-:

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[kurttrail]

That may change soon Kurt. I "think" I read somewhere that SP2 will be
looking at about 20 numbers.

Then there is the discussion as to whether or not Microsoft is going
to allow "everyone" to install SP2.

It's still very much up in the air! (-:

Yeah, MS employees have been contradicting each other on the subject in the
press lately. We'll have to wait and see.

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[Loren Kallwick]

are you folks going off my question and pro and cons of installing corporate
over xp pro. i think i erased original message i sent. Can you repost? and
do you have any comment? loren

 

[kurttrail]

are you folks going off my question and pro and cons of installing
corporate over xp pro.

This is a thread on the USENET, so it's bound to go OT at some point

i think i erased original message i sent. Can
you repost? and do you have any comment? loren

The so-called "corporate" version is a pirated version of VL XP. What you
have to do to install it, and update it depends on a few things.

Has your present XP install been updated to SP1?
Has SP1 been slipstreamed into your Corp Version?
If not, is the PK that you have one of the 2 blacklisted by SP1?
Do you have the XP keygen?

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[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please post back and describe the wording found on the CD you received.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| are you folks going off my question and pro and cons of installing corporate
| over xp pro. i think i erased original message i sent. Can you repost? and
| do you have any comment? loren

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Actually, there is no such thing as WinXP "Corporate Edition."
That is a term applied exclusively to pirated (iow, stolen) copies of
the Volume Licensed WinXP Pro by the "warez" aficionados.


Bruce Chambers

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Actually, there are more then two versions of WinXP. In addition
to WinXp Pro and WinXP Home, there are WinXP Tablet PC Edition, WinXP
Media Center Edition, and WinXP 64-Bit Edition.

Bruce Chambers

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[Alex Nichol]

I Have recently received a copy of WinXP Corporate. I am curious about
installing Corporate over Pro. What would be pro and con of using corporate?

A so called 'Corporate' version is usually a pirated copy of the Volume
licensed' (correct name) version, which is being used with pirate keys -
and nothing going back to MSoft. IOW Stolen goods. They have taken
steps to prevent the most common such keys being used to install SP1,
and may extend this over others in the future.

 

[NobodyMan]

are you folks going off my question and pro and cons of installing corporate
over xp pro. i think i erased original message i sent. Can you repost? and
do you have any comment? loren

You have already got several replies. Try reading them!

Oh, and nice attitude. You'll continue to get lots of help with a
post like this.