Re: Windows XP - Office vs Home Editions

From: Ken Blake, MVP (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:02:11 -0700

In news:dd1201c40b22$ade33a00$a401280a@phx.gbl,
Gerry <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> I'm trying to determine what the major differences are
> between the XP Home and Office editions?

Windows XP comes in two "flavors," Home and Professional. Office
XP is not an operating system at all, and despite the similarity
of the names, has nothing to do with Windows XP.

Office XP is not a version of Windows XP, but a suite of
application programs: a word processor, a spread***, a
database, etc.

So they are two completely different things, and it isn't
meaningful to ask about differences between them. Asking what the
difference is between Windows XP Home and Office XP is like
asking what the difference is between a Cadillac and tickets to
the opera. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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