Met de release van Windows XP vlak voor de deur hebben de mannen van Ars Technica een artikel in elkaar geknutseld over de verschillen tussen Windows XP Home Edition en Windows XP Professional. Naast het prijsverschil van 100 dollar ($199 versus $299) zijn er flinke verschillen tussen de twee versies, hoewel ze beide op dezelfde core gebaseerd zijn. Geavanceerde netwerk functies, SMP support en een gecodeerd bestandssysteem zijn allemaal niet mogelijk met de normale Home Edition. Hierover meer, en in meer detail in het artikel:
So there you have it, Windows XP Home Edition versus Windows XP Professional. There are several major issues you must consider before choosing which is best for you. As we've seen, if you are considering corporate deployment, forget about Home Edition. In the most basic terms, it's simply not an OS that's capable of working all that well in a very structured, managed networking environment such as you would find in the workplace (at least, in large workplaces with real IT leanings).
If you are simply replacing Windows 98 on your game box, give Home Edition a shot, especially if mom, dad and sis are going to be using the system as well. If you are used to Windows 2000 or even Windows NT, make the move to Windows XP Professional, as Home Edition is going to be lacking some of the tools you are used to using on almost a daily basis. The next article will cover the differences between Windows XP and Windows 2000, so if you have any questions you wish answered, please feel send them Ars way. We'll will do our best to answer them and provide as much information as possible in the next article.
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