Media Center 2005 as devlopment laptop?

[emde]

I am rebuilding one of my dev boxes and was thinking of loading media center
in lieu of xp. Anyone foresee downsides to this? I mainly do asp.net, c#
apps.

tia

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello emde,

It's good for dev station, the same as XP. I've use in about 1 year

e> I am rebuilding one of my dev boxes and was thinking of loading media
e> center in lieu of xp. Anyone foresee downsides to this? I mainly do
e> asp.net, c# apps.
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e> tia
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[Tom Porterfield]

emde wrote:

I am rebuilding one of my dev boxes and was thinking of loading media
center in lieu of xp. Anyone foresee downsides to this? I mainly do
asp.net, c# apps.

You won't be able to add your MCE2005 machine to a domain after install
(without hacks), and you don't get cached credentials. But other than that,
MCE2005 has the same components available as XP Pro.
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Tom Porterfield