Guest tefal la Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 After the drop in price and increased battery life of the Ipod I thought it was about time to get one. As I was about to hit the confirm order button I realised that I need Xp. I currently have Me. So looked into getting Xp and found two editions and the difference seems to be pretty much seems down to extra admin tools in the professional edition. My question is it worth the extra outlay. I use wifi, if that makes a difference. Also as I am now completely sold on the C/E500 do smartphones link better with either edition. By the way congrats on the 50k the site is very informative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuart P Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 Basic differences between home and professional... Professional can do: 1. File encryption or compression. Files can be encrypted or compressed on-the-fly by windows. 2. Multilingual interface. Change the interface if english isn't your native language. 3. Enhanced (= more complicated!) file & folder security. With the right preparation, you can set extremely fine control over users' permissions to access different data. 4. Can join a domain-based network. Home edition can only join a workgroup (peer to peer windows network). If you don't need any of these four, stick with Home edition. Stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tefal la Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beersoft Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 the main difference for the average user is about £70 xp pro does come with more things to break, but home is alright later Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zain [PRO] Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Pros better but to stop the wallet getting light homes best. Besides both OS's are made by Microsft so you only get the best quality :^o . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gorskar Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 As well as the differences mentioned above there are 2 features in pro I find very handy, sadly missing from home. Remote desktop - very useful tool, although you can use VNC or similar instead so not that essential. IIS (internet information services) Very handy for developing ASP or ASP.NET websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squall Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 i got win xp pro for about £80 inc vat from ebuyer:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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