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Can't Install XPSP2 Beta On XP-MCE

I just dl'd XPSP2 beta from MSDN Subscriber Downloads only to find out that it won't install on XP Media Center Edition. Bummer.

This seems silly to me as MCE is really just a thin veil over XP Professional. As far as I know, there's no real OS changes to support media center. It's simply an application (written in .NET btw) which provides the fancy Media Center “shell” over the underlying OS.

What a pain. I wonder if there's a build of the SP2 for MCE... I'd love to check it out.

Update: I forgot I was invited to the closed beta for SP2, before it was posted on MSDN subscriber downloads, and they have a version of it for MCE. Now I just gotta wait to see if I can get it.

Posted: Dec 22 2003, 01:21 PM by drub0y | with 4 comment(s)
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