Re: new system OS ???

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart,

Windows XP "Home" is "dumbed down" from the "Pro" version in
several ways:

(1) You can only access a subset of the file management / security
features with the "Home" version.

(2) Capabilities associated with networking with domains and Active
Directory are missing or severely restricted. Thus, your ability to
put together a small network of carefully managed computers is
highly restricted with the "Home" edition, even more so than with
Windows'9x/Me.

(3) I am told that a number of other system management utilities
are missing in the "Home" edition.

The base operating system is the same, but you lose quite a bit of
flexibility to subsequently become part of a larger network of
computers, if necessary.

Understand that my 34 years in the "bizz" tend to make me somewhat
of a picky, demanding, power user. As such, I wouldn't touch the
"Home" edition with a ten foot pole. Having said that, for most
personal purposes other than networking, I would certainly not
dispute that XP Home is orders of magnitude "better" than 
Windows'9x/Me in terms of stability.

        - Dov


At 2/21/2002 12:43 AM, Stuart Burnfield wrote:
>Hi Dov -
>
>> My personal recommendation is to go to preferably Windows 2000
>> Professional (if you can still find it) or otherwise Windows XP
>> Professional (the "Home" version is dumbed down). 
>
>Can you say in what ways XP Home is dumbed down? I run 98 SE, which
>is adequate, but a more stable OS that runs NT-family apps would be
>very attractive.
>
>Based on my not-very-indepth reading, I pictured XP Pro as the
>business/server version, and XP Home as the SOHO/workstation edition.
>I thought Home basically ran the same apps as Pro but lacked some
>scalability, networking and workgroup features. From your mail it
>sounds like there's more to it than that.
>
>Would you say XP Home is a maybe a little lightweight for a SOHO
>with a couple of networked PCs and a standard Frameish workflow
>(Frame/MS Office/graphics/PDF/print/scan/burn, etc.)?
>
>Please feel free to reply to the list if you think the answer would
>be of general interest.
>
>Regards
>---
>Stuart Burnfield


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