[DM-MUG] Parallels and running Win [ick!]

[John D. Todd]

Darcy got to it first, but...

Here are some links for reference:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpdifs.html

Most of the major differences are all file security or networking related,
(Joining a domain, user security settings, remote desktop hosting, etc)

Some of differences out of the box, Home lacks Fax support or backup 
software, but they are on the home cd and can be installed manually.

My overall advice would be to use Pro also, it has tighter security and 
from experience just acts more stable. I don't have proof of this, but 
really feal the MS made XPPro, then started commenting out a bunch of code 
to give them Home. Probably like they will be doing for the free version 
of "Vista".

JT


On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Matthew W. wrote:

> You also need to make sure it's not an older version. Should be XP with 
> Service Pack 2. I have yet to test pre-XP SP2 versions, but it's not 
> recommended. For basic needs, XP Home should be fine and cheaper too, from 
> $120. I would probably get XP Pro too, Bryan, but you and I are not basic 
> users.
>
> If anyone can post to the list the truly useful differences between Pro and 
> Home, I'd sure appreciate it. (John Todd?)
>
> Matthew
>
> On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:
>
>> I'd recommend finding a full retail version of XP Pro. OEM versions aren't 
>> supposed to work afaik (at least w/ bootcamp), upgrade versions will likely 
>> require an existing windows install, at this point there's little point in 
>> running an older version of Windows - and XP Home is fairly crippled, so 
>> I'd recommend going w/ XP Pro, but YMMV - I guess I feel that if you're 
>> going to do it, might as well be as well covered as possible. Expect the 
>> win license to be up to about $300 or so (I was just looking, thinking 
>> about trying to get some Macbooks in here)
>> 
>> On Aug 24, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Jerry Heiselman wrote:
>>> Both products (Parallels and Bootcamp) will run any version of
>>> Windows, so it's really up to you.  You may be hard pressed, however,
>>> to find anything other than WinXP, although you may still be able to
>>> get a hold of Win2000 from eBay or something similar.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jerry
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