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  1. November 30th, 2004, 12:54 PM #1
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    What is the difference?

    Just curious,.. I haven't been able to figure this out. What exactly is the difference between Win2K and WinXP? I mean, obviously XP has SP2 which adds the integrated security tools,.. and XP seems to have a bit more multimedia support. But other than that, Win2K seems to make more sense. It's like a stripped down XP OS. It's kinda like,.. do you want eye candy? Go with XP. Do you want a stable, secure, reliable OS? Go with Win2K. That's how I look at it. Any thoughts on this?
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  2. November 30th, 2004, 12:59 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by freddy
    this topic has been discussed to death ,,,yes the eye candy ,,,but more inportantly , support for more items ,,,that are not used in a works enviroment
    Cool. Then I will save my company some money and purchase the 2K licenses instead of the XP licenses.
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    XP has better driver support and has a few features here and there that make it worth the money
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  4. December 3rd, 2004, 08:02 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by WebHead
    Cool. Then I will save my company some money and purchase the 2K licenses instead of the XP licenses.
    The prices for OEM Windows 2000 is usually the same, if not more expensive then XP Prof. You would probably not be saving your company any money.

    Were you aware of Downgrade rights with XP Professional? In that you can own XP Pro, but install any other MS OS on that Machine (except Win95 and XP Home), OEM qualifies, see here:
    http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...rade_chart.doc
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    Newguy is correct 2k pro is usually more then xppro
    you dont get a firewall, added security

    Win2k is nice but it is not and never will be XPPRO
    and no more work iis going into it no more SP's
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