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11 06 2007

Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 running on Windows Server 2008 Beta 3

Posted by Kevin Reeuwijk in Longhorn

imageI’m running Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 for a few weeks now and I generally love it. And because it’s based on the same codebase as Windows Vista, you can actually run it pretty much as you would with Vista – though the license would be pretty steep for a desktop OS ;-) . Compared to Vista I have found only 3 features missing:

  1. Support for Infrared and Bluetooth adapters. There is no support for these technologies in the system.
  2. Media playback optimizations. Vista contains additional improvements to make sure your audio and/or video runs smoothly, even when there’s load on the system. Not so with Windows Server 2008.
  3. Windows Mobile Device Center.

So I thought, could you install this new WMDC update on Windows Server 2008? Yes you can! I love common codebases!

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