Windows 2000 vs. XP Home Edition ?

[Crazy Horse]

Geez, I hate when I do this... but I think I've just made an ass of
myself in a discussion with a friend...

I was insisting that Windows 2000 came out in two flavors for client
workstations: Professional and Home edition; he contends that there is
(and always has been) only one version: Professional. Having just looked
at Microsoft's website:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryDesktop.mspx
it appears that I was mistaken and my friend was correct. I find this
particularly disconcerting (and embarrassing) since I (unlike my friend¹)
have a background in I/T and was so confident in the truth of my
conviction.

This discussion came about in the following context:
I had mentioned that I recently wiped WinXP-Home off of my new laptop in
favor of installing Windows 2000 Professional. My impression is that *he*
seemed to think that doing this amounted to downgrading my operating
system. And of course, my intent was to *upgrade* the quality of my OS.

Well, for the moment anyway, I no longer feel the strength of my
convictions on the answer to this question: which is the "better"
operating system -- Windows 2000 Professional -or- Windows XP Home
Edition? Therefore, I thought I'd consult a newsgroup whose members
could provide an authoritative response.

So... what say you? Which *is* the "better" operating system?

NOTE: for the purpose of this discussion, I'd like to define "better" in
terms of basic technical attributes and *not* in terms of (what I would
consider to be) more superficial attributes such as cosmetic appearance
or ease-of-use characteristics. I'm more concerned with things like
robustness of technical features and capabilities, reliability and
stability, etc. In other words, which is "better" from the perspective
of a someone with an I/T background vs. a typical, non-technical end-
user?
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-CH
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1. My friend is a lawyer... and, as we all know, *they* are always
confident about everything! ;-)

 

[nerd32768]

XP home is good for a standard, computer illiterate "home user". XP is newer
that 2000, but is much more UNreliable. The main advantage with Windows
2000, is that you can use older programs that XP does not support, and you
can log on to a domain. in a way, your friend was correct, becuase you were
"downgrading", but the downgrade gives you more stability. the best thing
for you to do is partition your hard drive, and have 2000 and XP

 

[ByTor]

Well, for the moment anyway, I no longer feel the strength of my
convictions on the answer to this question: which is the "better"
operating system -- Windows 2000 Professional -or- Windows XP Home
Edition? Therefore, I thought I'd consult a newsgroup whose members
could provide an authoritative response.

So... what say you? Which *is* the "better" operating system?

NOTE: for the purpose of this discussion, I'd like to define "better" in
terms of basic technical attributes and *not* in terms of (what I would
consider to be) more superficial attributes such as cosmetic appearance
or ease-of-use characteristics. I'm more concerned with things like
robustness of technical features and capabilities, reliability and
stability, etc. In other words, which is "better" from the perspective
of a someone with an I/T background vs. a typical, non-technical end-
user?
_______
-CH
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I'll put it to you this way........I have 18gig of software *ONLY*
installed to my Win2k partition, *NOT* a single issue...And I do use ALL
the software.
I tried to duplicate this on XP Pro, Home....and had more problems than
I've ever seen in my entire computer life.....

Do the math............... ;0)

 

[Brian Abernethy]

Geez, I hate when I do this... but I think I've just made an ass of
myself in a discussion with a friend...

I was insisting that Windows 2000 came out in two flavors for client
workstations: Professional and Home edition; he contends that there is
(and always has been) only one version: Professional. Having just looked

at Microsoft's website:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryDesktop.mspx
it appears that I was mistaken and my friend was correct. I find this
particularly disconcerting (and embarrassing) since I (unlike my friend )

have a background in I/T and was so confident in the truth of my
conviction.

This discussion came about in the following context:
I had mentioned that I recently wiped WinXP-Home off of my new laptop in
favor of installing Windows 2000 Professional. My impression is that *he*

seemed to think that doing this amounted to downgrading my operating
system. And of course, my intent was to *upgrade* the quality of my OS.

Well, for the moment anyway, I no longer feel the strength of my
convictions on the answer to this question: which is the "better"
operating system -- Windows 2000 Professional -or- Windows XP Home
Edition? Therefore, I thought I'd consult a newsgroup whose members
could provide an authoritative response.

So... what say you? Which *is* the "better" operating system?

NOTE: for the purpose of this discussion, I'd like to define "better" in
terms of basic technical attributes and *not* in terms of (what I would
consider to be) more superficial attributes such as cosmetic appearance
or ease-of-use characteristics. I'm more concerned with things like
robustness of technical features and capabilities, reliability and
stability, etc. In other words, which is "better" from the perspective
of a someone with an I/T background vs. a typical, non-technical end-
user?

-CH


1. My friend is a lawyer... and, as we all know, *they* are always
confident about everything! ;-)

My free advice is this; 2000 Professional is the high water mark of
Microsoft O/S's. XP is prettier, but if you want bullet proof
stability go with 2000 Pro.
If you feel that XP is nessasary then go with the Pro version. XP home
is a throwback to the Windows ME mentality that a user is not
qualified to run their own PC, and that the O/S will take care of
itself. Which is never the case and only makes working on the machine
harder (ie. virus issues and system restore, etc.) In practical
experiance if the computer ships with XP Pro it works fine; if it
shipped with anything else and you upgraded it, you are just waiting
for disaster.
-b

 

[Crazy Horse]

I hope this means that some of my programs that ran on W95 will run okay
on Windows 2000.

Thanks for your input. 'T'was helpful.

The main advantage with Windows
2000, is that you can use older programs that XP does not support

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-CH
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[Crazy Horse]

I'll put it to you this way........I have 18gig of software *ONLY*
installed to my Win2k partition, *NOT* a single issue...And I do use ALL
the software.
I tried to duplicate this on XP Pro, Home....and had more problems than
I've ever seen in my entire computer life.....

Thanks for your feedback.

I'm having more problems just getting Windows set up than I've seen in my
entire life. Stay tuned for a future post.
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-CH
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