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> What's wrong with Windows XP Home?

Dov Isaacs from Adobe has warned people about XP Home:

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


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/Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
http://go.to/framers/