michkal wrote:

> I throught Media Center Edition is positioned between XP Home edition
> and XP Pro, and that XP Pro contained addtional capabilities that
> Media Center Edition or Home Edition does not support, such as easier
> network connectivity, connecting to domains (for my job), advanced
> security... Isn't this true?


Not exactly. Media Center has everything in XP Professional with *one*
exception. It can't join a domain.


> I would love to stick with Media Center Edition, but I just want to
> make sure that I have all the networking capabilities that I know XP
> Pro has for my home network,


Assuming that your home network is a peer-to-peer (workgroup) network, yes
it does.


> and support when I connect to my
> employer's network.


If your employer's network is a domain (and most large companies use
domains, not workgroups), no it doesn't.

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> Any further insight into this is appreciated.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:
>
>> "michkal" <michkal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7CF973FA-6286-40F8-81D7-BE08BFBF39C1@microsoft.com
>>> I just purchased a laptop with XP Media Center Edition. When I
>>> placed the order for my laptop I forgot to order it with XP Pro
>>> installed, so I purchased the XP Pro disk afterwards from the
>>> manufacturer.
>>>
>>> I started the XP Pro upgrade from within XP Media Center Edition on
>>> the laptop. After the upgrade collected initial configuration
>>> information it started the uprade, rebooted, and continued the
>>> upgrade to XP Pro from the booted CD. The upgrade started to prompt
>>> me to insert the XP Pro CD2 for additional files that it needed.
>>> Problem is, there is only one CD for the installation.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to upgrade to XP Pro from XP Media Center Edition,
>>> and if so, what is the best way to proceed without having to do a
>>> new install resulting in overwriting the software applications that
>>> were already installed?
>>>
>>> Luckily I made an image of the drive before attempting the XP Pro
>>> upgrade and copied it back on the laptop so I can try this again.
>>
>> Media Center Edition is a super-set of WinXPPro. It contains
>> _everything_ that WinXP Pro contains. Going from WinXP Media Center
>> Edition to WinXP Pro is a DOWNgrade. You would have to format the
>> partition and make a clean install.
>>
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