Home vs. Professional

J

John Bailo

I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )

Is that a good price?

What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
 
T

Terry Fisher

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I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )

Is that a good price?

What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
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home won't run IIS and can't join a domain. home won't do hyperthreading.

why the **** would you pay money for XP?
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

Windows XP Home Edition Comparison Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

$165 for a "Full Retail Version" of Windows XP Home Edition is a good price.
The suggested retail value is $199.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )
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| Is that a good price?
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| What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
 
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Tom Shelton

I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )

Is that a good price?

What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
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Someone already pointed you to the difference list. But, I like pro
better :) Anyway, as for price - I paid $145 for pro. I bought it OEM
with a cd audio cable.
 
T

TCS

I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )
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Is that a good price?
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It's a ripoff.
OEM price is about $80; target and the other department stores sell the
upgrade version for $99.


What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
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Very little. Pro has more networking options, ability to connect remotely
via remote desktop, and a backup/restore utility. It also lets you create
folders that can be opened "offline" on another machine and synchronized
when they are reconnected.

The kernel and gui are identical.
 
K

kurttrail

John said:
I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )

Is that a good price?

What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
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LOL! Figures you'd be ripped off, Ballo the Clown.

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
 
K

Ken Blake

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John Bailo said:
What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
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XP Professional and XP Home are exactly the same in all respects,
except that Professional has a few features (mostly related to
networking and security) missing from Home. For most (but not
all) home users, even those with a home network, these features
aren't needed, would never be used, and buying Professional
instead of Home is a waste of money.

For details go to

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Also note that Professional allows ten concurrent network
connections, and Home only five.
 
A

Al Smith

What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?

Windows XP Home has some artificial limits imposed on its use in
order to justify Microsoft charging more money for XP Pro, which
has those limits removed. If you just have a single home computer,
you won't miss the extra abilities of Pro.
 
B

BezuFache

John said:
I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )

Is that a good price?

What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
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Why did you pay? Windows XP comes free with your PC.

Bezu
 
L

Lee Chapelle

Al Smith said:
Windows XP Home has some artificial limits imposed on its use in
order to justify Microsoft charging more money for XP Pro, which
has those limits removed. If you just have a single home computer,
you won't miss the extra abilities of Pro.
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Microsoft should not be allowed to charge money for their products at all.
Who do they think they are?
 
G

Greyfrog

John,
This is a Linux Advocacy group, but you come here for M$
questions. Guess you know where the real computer pros, don't you?
 
S

Sam Spade

Windows XP Home has some artificial limits imposed on its use in
order to justify Microsoft charging more money for XP Pro, which
has those limits removed.
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That's the kind of marketing ploy exercised by criminal organizations
such as Microsoft.
If you just have a single home computer, you won't miss the extra
abilities of Pro.
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If you have any sense at all, you don't miss the misfeatures of
Microsoft's version of Windows because you don't use it.
 
P

Phil Da Lick!

John said:
I just bought Home XP for $165 ( full version, not upgrade )

Is that a good price?

What's the difference between Home and Pro XP?
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pro is crap, home is worse
 

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