[Technical] Off Topic - Windows XP and Serv Pack 2 Incompatibility

[Con Zymaris]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:18:29AM +1000, Clarky wrote:
> 
> Hi Con,
> 
> Well, there's a developer utility that tests older apps - are you thinking
> perhaps of the checkboxes that tell XP to pretend to be a Win2000 or 95
> computer, just for a particular program?

I'm sure I've seen, on XP, a utility which allows you to test the 
compatibility of apps installed on that system. Now this may have been a 
separately installed piece of software on the XP systems I've seen it on, 
but somewhere, such a beastie exists.

> ---
> I'd also be curious to know what a lab full of XP machines costs, if it's
> not a problem to reveal such numbers.
> ---
> 
> Not including the hardware? It really depends. 

I mean everything.

What would it cost for a school to buy a lab of 50 PCs, one server, all
hardware, screens, keyboards, mice, all the software that would be needed
for an average computer lab, have it installed and operational.


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