Re: Windows 2000 vs. XP Home Edition ?

From: gerryR (notmyaddress_at_spam.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:19:30 +0100

I've actually done the same thing for two main reasons:

1. I wanted to join the domain in work so XP Home doesn't have this ability.
2. XP Home was driving me crazy with trojens, popups etc I even had spybot
installed but why should I have to run spybot everytime I browse the web ??
I think XP SP2 will address that, maybe I'll upgrade when it is released.

But for now it's 2k all the way
hth
gerryR
"Crazy Horse" <nospam@all.is.best> wrote in message
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Geez, I hate when I do this... but I think I've just made an fool 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 friendB9) 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! ;-)

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