The other day I got Windows XP Pro from the uni from their "free" MSDN stuff.
But I relised that they gave me the checked/debug build version of XP Pro.
It's really wierd, it's like some programmer version of XP for the Operating System programming students/NERDS at uni. But its really anoying, when I connect to the net, all these weird debug errors popup and evenutally Windows does an auto shutdown? :mad: :mad:
Anyone used Windows XP Pro from uni, cus it's really screwed. I can't even install certail programs like Winamp or Azureus!!! Can NE1 help me??
No Lataf, it's probably a demo copy or a version Uni students can use for educational purposes. However i'm not too sure on that, I know a lot of Miscrosofts prgramming tools have some form of student software, usually limited in what it can do, but it is enough to build programs (usually not compile). I'm only guessing.
But more to the point, you are still probably better off getting a proper retail version of Windows XP, by the sounds of things its not meant to be used as an everyday OS.
As for some help, sorry no can do, go take a programming or OS class at Uni or something :p
At RMIT, Microsoft and every other big name company, gives their stuff to RMIT to give to us students for completely. FREE. Full Windows XP, Windows 2004 Server, everything. Hell I've got a complete copy of Microsoft .Net 2003 completely free thanks to Microsoft. Protel, Borland, Microsoft, and other engineering names do these things.
The whole idea is to ensure we learn using their software so when we do get to industry, we only know how to use their stuff so we'll end up setting up entire infrastructures using their stuff, hopefully the stuff they gave to us free at Uni.
Jay is correct School of Informatics at CDU have an alliance with Microsoft similar to RMIT allowing Informatics Students to install a range of MS Products for Educational purposes including Windows XP etc.