Originally posted by: bsobel
UGHHHHHHHHHHHH You of all people Actually this is wrong, see my 100 other posts correcting this misperception
Early on in the development process (before it went beta) I had been told by some of the folks @ MS that it would be based on XP Home. However as it got closer to release I had been told that it had been changed to be based on XP Pro. I hadnt heard otherwise until recently when I went and installed it. In the installer "XP Pro" is plastered all over the place (i.e. "Please insert Windows XP Pro CD 2"). Granted most users dont get to see the installers, but I took this as an indication that it had been build on the XP Pro featureset as I had been told.
To respond to one of those 100s of posts
however is built on the XP core, there is no concept as to it's built on Home or it's built on Pro (as other people in this thread have pointed out, and I've had to mention about weekly lately )
So what's the differance between XP Home and XP Pro? They are both the same core, the SKU for home and pro is essentially just a differant featureset for the same core.
Okay what about MCE? MCE is essentically the XP Pro featureset with some added features. Does this make it XP Pro? No, it's still a seperate SKU; however it contains the XP Pro featureset.
This is just like Windows XP Tablet PC Edition; where it is built on the same XP core, contains the XP Pro featureset with additional features. Yes it's a seperate SKU, but I wouldnt say you were wrong if you said it was XP Pro with some extra software (which it basically is).
I realize now we're basically just arguing symantics, my point is that for the most part XP MCE is XP with the Pro featureset and the MCE featureset.
So technically XP MCE is not "Based on XP Pro"; but it does contain the XP Pro featureset.
I suppose we could even say "Based on XP Home" if we wanted because it does contain the XP Home featureset; however it would be more inclusive to say "Based on XP Pro". Again neither are technically the correct answer, but today I'm too tired to care :roll:
Not that any of this really matters, the OP got answered long ago