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XP Professional VS 2000 professional

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by northwood

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I am very familiar with win 2000 Professional. I have not had a chance to fully investigate XP Professional yet. I heard that XP professonal is a scaled down version of 2000 Professional. Does anyone have any direct knwolegde about both win 2000 and XP and how they compare?

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by saihib

XP Pro is a scaled UP version version of Win2K. It's not a different OS. They still run on the same kernel. There are subtle enhancements in XP but it's not a giant leap. It's kinda like buying a new car. You might want to wait a few model years before all the kinks are worked out. Win2K works great for me with SP2 installed.

by tiago

What you'll notice first is that:

-You can remote control your clients without any addicional software (All you have to do is enable remote control on the XP client and run Terminal Services Client from your workstation to control the XP PC)

-It already includes a very cool Terminal Services Client

-If you have a laptop, and you plug in a network cable when it is on, it'll automatically get a new IP Address (if it's configured for DHCP).

-Neat Interface

-Automatic swap area management

-Requires MUCH more hardware than Win2K Pro

-And all the Win2K blah blah blah group policies, restrictions, auditing, and etc...

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