Windows XP Home Ed and Professional??

[GT98]

I was just checking out an email that MS sent me about getting a beta verison of Windows XP Professional and I was checking out the web site and was suprised to find that there was two different verisons of XP coming out....Home edition and Professional. Any one have more info what makes them different from each other, besides the home ed problay has a cut down network options like WinME???

Scott


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[Rags]

Home edition is supposed to have less networking support, and won't have true DH support (like win2k), but the DH thing shouldn't matter if you have a Matrox card

Rags

[xortam]

Isn't the licensing mechanism only in the home edition?

[Pace]

The activation feature is all rumours at the moment, it'll likely change by the time we reach gold status.

Home Edition will basically be WinMe but on the NT kernel. Pro will be Win2k with...er...some extras Also, note that only Pro or above will allow SMP (dual processors).

P.

[Gurm]

Pace,

Activation is very much NOT a rumor, it has been in since build 2446. That's almost a month.

- Gurm

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[Jon P. Inghram]

Any clues as to the price difference between the "pro" version and the "home" version? If it was affordable I'd rather just get the pro one and skip the "Gates Mafia" copy protection.

[Chucky Cheese]

i don't know about everyone else, but i plan on buying XP Pro, but then seeking out a crack for the WPA. i know that there will have to be some sort of "all in wonder key" that will fully activate the product.

i have always purchased microsoft products, and the other software that i use, XP pro and officeXP pro will be no different, but i don't agree with the WPA schema.

cc

[The PIT]

Certainly tinkerers like us need a way round this protection system

[Pace]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Gurm:
Pace,

Activation is very much NOT a rumor, it has been in since build 2446. That's almost a month.

- Gurm</font>

Yes, but we can still only guess as to what versions will contain it when it RTMs.

[Topha]

xp home will not only not have dh, it will also be lacking multi cpu support. there will also be some other features lacking, i got no clue what they are at the moment though.
im definitley going with prof (if i upgrade to xp that is, dont wanna register )

[isochar]

Rumor has it that the prices for Home and Personal will correspond with current prices for ME/Win2k:

ME Retail Full/XP Home: $180
Win2k Pro/XP Pro: $330

[Pace]

Topha: I believe I already mentioned the multi CPU aspect

Anyway, here's a rough rundown of what's likely to differ between the personal/home edition, and the professional edition:

SMP: Pro will offer 1-2 CPU support, just like Win2k, and HE will offer single processor only. Additionally, Pro may also offer 64bit support for Itanium etc, which is highly unlikely to feature in HE.

Networking: Active Directory, Intellimirror and Remote Desktop will be kept for the Pro edition.

Security: Win2k's security set will be improved for XP, and the Pro version will additionally have the new C2 security features.

DOS: Both versions will have the OS emulation mode for Win95.

Also, .NET is not likely to feature too heavily in XP, as it's going to debut mainly in Blackcomb (after XP).

P.

[Topha]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Pace:
Topha: I believe I already mentioned the multi CPU aspect

P.</font>

Oi gewalt

[SteveC]

Have you all seen this:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/preview/order.asp

?

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Cheers,
Steve

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[DentyCracker]

Saw it yesterday morning