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>>UPDATE. What I mean by my question is what are the advantages of using VM XP?
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>One thing I would worry about is using XP as a web server or any kind of server. Is this just for development/test?
This is for production. I agree, I would rather they use Server 2003 but for some reason they decided on XP. I know XP will work as I used to have customers using it for web server (before release of Server 2003).
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