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Kent is correct I believe. See this site.
http://www.lfpratt.com/technews/#a
Jimmy
Thursday, December 5, 2002, 12:01:07 PM, you wrote:
Kent> Not correct. XP Home and XP Pro are the same base operating system. Pro
Kent> has some more little applets and has a few more features enabled.
Kent> Microsoft marketing tries to differentiate them by telling 98/ME users that
Kent> they should upgrade to XP Home, but they are the same base operating system
Kent> and that base is the NT/2000 base.
Kent> Kent
Kent> ----- Original Message -----
Kent> From: "Vince Heiker" <tachyonv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Kent> To: "Kent Rollins" <kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "OmegaList"
Kent> <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Kent> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: W3.1 ->> W95 -> W98 -> ME -> XP
Kent> Sorry Kent, that is not correct. Someone or something has misinformed you.
Kent> XP Pro is the NT-W2K successor, not XP. XP is the end of the line for that
Kent> version of Windows.
Kent> MS has stated this in public, include Bill Gates himself in a recent Charlie
Kent> Rose interview on public television.
Kent> FYI I beta test for Microsoft, and I have XP Pro. I use W2K SP3 instead
Kent> because it has fewer bugs, and unlike XP and XP Pro, it does not require me
Kent> to contact MS whenever I want to gut my PC and build a new one.
Kent> Vince Heiker
Kent> Flower Mound, TX
Kent> -----Original Message-----
Kent> From: Kent Rollins [mailto:kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Kent> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:29 PM
Kent> To: OmegaList
Kent> Subject: Re: [OT] New pc
Kent> XP is not a successor in the 95 line. XP is the latest iteration of the NT
Kent> line which goes NT-2000-XP.
Kent> Kent
Kent> ---
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