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Will Novell provide a client for Microsoft WindowsXP Home Edition? - TID10065595 (last modified 22DEC2003)
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Will Novell provide a client for Microsoft WindowsXP Home Edition?

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Statement on Novell Client support for Windows XP Home Edition and other Personal OS Operating Systems
October 19, 2001


While the Novell Client may work on the Windows XP Home Edition platform it has not been designed for that platform. The Windows XP Home Edition platform is considered for home use and not business use. The networking drivers are not included with Windows XP Home Edition and Microsoft does not support copying files from one OS to another. For these reasons, Novell has not fully integrated the Novell Client with the Windows XP Home Edition platform.

This is the wave of the future at Microsoft; they are stratifying into Personal, Professional, and Server editions for home, business, and critical business applications.

Novell has not looked at what specifically does or does not fail with the Novell XP client when installed on Windows XP Home.  The decision relative to not supporting the Novell XP client on Windows XP Home was based on Microsoft's own position on the capabilities and support for Windows XP Home, which does not include use as part of corporate and enterprise networks.

Although there are indeed features and presumably specific files that have been excluded from Windows XP Home relative to Windows XP Professional, Novell is not currently aware of any specific file or technological capability excluded from Windows XP Home that explicitly precludes the Novell XP client from working on Windows XP Home.  But nor is that assessment being made; i.e. there is no testing occurring of what works or has issues on Windows XP Home since the Windows XP Home platform falls outside of what the Novell XP client will be supported on.




Document Title: Will Novell provide a client for Microsoft
Document ID: 10065595
Solution ID: NOVL61650
Creation Date: 24OCT2001
Modified Date: 22DEC2003
Novell Product Class: NetWare

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