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To: Night Writer who wrote (1928)	10/15/2002 1:15:06 AM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4345

My version of XP says "Home Edition". Guess there's more than one version of XP.

To: Night Writer who wrote (1928)	10/15/2002 8:05:08 AM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4345

FWIW, I have ME at home and XP at work. ME sucks. Pure and simple. A crash a day. XP is much more stable.

To: Night Writer who wrote (1928)	10/15/2002 10:20:38 AM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Respond to of 4345

XP is based on the WinNT operating system, which is far more stable. It was originally designed as a "business" OS and required a lot more processing power and memory to work well. Win95 was an alternative, which was more backward compatible (to Win 3.11 and DOS) but as a result was less stable. Microsoft enhanced it in Win98, 98SE and ME. However, as the consumer versions of Windows have grown, they have become almost as bulky as NT, but remained relatively unstable. The "split OS" strategy stopped making sense. XP is built on NT technology, but adds in many of the "home" features that were not included in older versions of NT or Win2000 Pro, particularly the ability to handle certain gaming applications. The difference between XP Pro and XP Home is that the pro version has certain remote management and networking features activated, while the home version doesn't. I'm told that a person who is skilled at registry management can activate those features on the home version too, as they are there, just hidden. In the process, some backward compatibility was thrown out. That much was inevitable and every hardware manufacturer has known it was coming for years. mg