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Skriven 2006-11-06 18:08:00 av ROBERT FOWLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CHARLES ANGELICH
Ärende: Re: 64-bit Windows
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-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to ROBERT FOWLER <=-

 AZ>>>> I suspect that if you check what's being pre-loaded
 AZ>>>> those Athlon-64 and other 64-bit processors, you'll see
 AZ>>>> standard 32-bit WinXP Home...

 CA>>> Not in Michigan, no. The majority seem to have WinMCE
 CA>>> pre-loaded (WinXP Pro).

 RF>> Yes, but MCE is not XP Pro. It doesn't have the ability to
 RF>> join a domain or to run Remote Desktop Connection, etc.,
 RF>> which BTW, are primarily business marketed features.

 CA>> I wouldn't know about joining a domain or running Remote
 CA>> Desktop Connection because those are meaninless to me. I
 CA>> only know that WinMCE is referred to as WinXP-Pro if
 CA>> anything at all and it seems compatible with software that
 CA>> requires WinXP-Pro.

 RF> A correction to the earlier...MCE does support RDC and even
 RF> file encryption, perhaps lending it to comparisons with XP
 RF> Pro. It however, is not a retail product, let alone have
 RF> mass licensing, and it cannot join domains. The latter two
 RF> facts virtually exclude MCE from use in the corporate
 RF> environment. It is targeted solely to home users, unlike
 RF> Pro, which perhaps has as much business as home usage.

 CA> I'm not a store clerk nor a bean counter so what's your point?

 Just a little more information to clarify why MCE is or isn't XP Pro.

 RF> Additionally, I understand that OEM copies of MCE for
 RF> builders are available only for a select group....nothing
 RF> like the case for OEM copies of XP Home and Pro.

 CA> So you're saying MCE is l33t?

 No.  IMO, MCE is a bad idea gone worse.  The Media Center module
 should have been a retail add-on, like MS Plus.  Limiting it exclusively
 to an OEM OS that requires the user to buy a separate machine, while
 denying it from other version owners is stupid.  It's tantamount to
 having an OEM business version that runs MS Office, while other versions
 can't.

 The speculation was leveled some time back that MS OS sales would decline
 commensurate with the decline in sales of new computers.  MCE is clearly
 a tactic to bolster OS sales by forcing users to purchase a new system
 with higher end hardware, just to get a feature.  That's shameless, IMO.

 It also begs the question of how much of this reasoning will be used
 in the distinctions among the Vista versions.  As long as the consumer
 remains oblivious to the tactics, MS will get away with it.

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler
 

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