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The Register: Registry hack turns XP Pro into server, vice versa.

Some years back a similar controversy raged over NT 4.0… Microsoft at the time argued strenuously that there were major differences justifying the price difference, while others argued the opposite fairly convincingly. … A discussion thread in a private .NET beta newsgroup seems to be going over this old ground again. According to one Microsoft operative contributing:

“There are of course things that are mere registry changes between versions, but there are many other things that are not. Even if you dress your cat up as a dog, you in fact will still have a cat.”

Thanks for clearing that up.

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