Is BITS is XP specific?

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Baskar - 03 Jan 2007 06:07 GMT

Hi,

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is used to for automatic
update.
I would like to know whether it is Win XP specific?
Kindly reply.

Regards,
Baskar C.G

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Oliver Sturm - 03 Jan 2007 11:24 GMT

Hello Baskar,

>Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is used to for automatic
>update.
>I would like to know whether it is Win XP specific?

I have never used it myself, but I had a look around. There's a version
history page here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363167.aspx

This page shows that version 2.0 of BITS also works on Windows 2000, so
BITS is not generally XP specific - all newer versions of Windows also
support it. I'm sorry, I don't know what drawbacks would be involved in
targetting a specific version of BITS for OS compatibility reasons.

Oliver Sturm

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