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I have been looking and cannot seem to find the answers to the question "What advantages does Windows XP Pro have over Windows 200 Pro?" Especially in a networked office environment. Any thoughts or sites are greatly appreciated.
 
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I have been looking and cannot seem to find the answers
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to the question "What advantages does Windows XP Pro have
over Windows 200 Pro?" Especially in a networked office
environment. Any thoughts or sites are greatly
appreciated.
 
In a pure business environment I wouldn't waste my money upgrading W2K to XP
Pro.
JonnyJohan said:
I have been looking and cannot seem to find the answers to the question
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"What advantages does Windows XP Pro have over Windows 200 Pro?" Especially
in a networked office environment. Any thoughts or sites are greatly
appreciated.
 
Greetings --

Both operating systems are equally stable, and there's no
significant performance differences between them that I've been able
to see between them. I've never seen a BSOD on either that wasn't
caused by a hardware problem. I have seen misbehaving applications
locked up Win2K, requiring a reboot, but have yet to experience this
on WinXP. WinXP, however, is geared more towards multimedia uses than
is Win2K. From a business point-of-view, WinXP=Win2K+Fluff. However,
most of that "Fluff" is multimedia-related; not much use in a business
environment.


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JonnyJohan said:
I have been looking and cannot seem to find the answers to the
question "What advantages does Windows XP Pro have over Windows 200
Pro?" Especially in a networked office environment. Any thoughts or
sites are greatly appreciated.
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First of all, realize that the two are very similar. Under the
hood, Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0, and XP is NT 5.1. So XP is
a relatively minor update to 2000.

If you already have 2000, and are contemplating moving to XP, the
right answer for many people is that it's not worth the cost. But
if you're planning on buying a new computer and asking what
version to install on it, to me the answer is clearly XP. XP has
the following small but significant advantages over 2000:

Msconfig
System restore
Driver Rollback
Better Help System
Clear Type

Additions to my list by others are welcome.
 
JonnyJohan said:
I have been looking and cannot seem to find the answers to the question "What advantages does Windows XP Pro have over Windows 200 Pro?" Especially in a networked office environment. Any thoughts or sites are greatly appreciated.
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It has some improvements in the core of the system (especially in
Virtual memory handling), additions like the System Restore system, plus
a new and extended shell (which you might or might not like). There
does not seem to be strong reason to upgrade from Win2000; but if
upgrading an NT or Win9x, XP would be the system to move to.
 
"What advantages does Windows XP Pro have over Windows 200 Pro?" Especially
in a networked office environment. Any thoughts or sites are greatly
appreciated.
It has some improvements in the core of the system (especially in
Virtual memory handling), additions like the System Restore system, plus
a new and extended shell (which you might or might not like). There
does not seem to be strong reason to upgrade from Win2000; but if
upgrading an NT or Win9x, XP would be the system to move to.
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Absolutely. I think the biggest leap was NT4 to 2K; however I don't know
what happened to Microsoft's marketing strategy for 2K. It wasn't clear
whether it was positioned as a workstation OS or a home one - Pro very
clearly positions itself as a blend of the two and rightly so.

There have been a few very important enhancements in security "over-looks"
plugged in XP Pro.. Like EFS for instance, there's no longer a DRA, and all
admin accounts have same powers mostly. Also, once the password for a user
account is reset the user loses all his EFS keys and rightly so - 'cause the
EFS certificate now links itself to the assigned user account password.
Stuff like this is important, but only if it applies to you. XP Pro is
basically a tremendously well implemented NT system - an incredible
achievement - both looks and performance wise. It's for the true power
user.
 
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