Its robust help system includes tours, walk-throughs, and a whole legion of wizards to help with everything from customizing the desktop to setting up a home network. Windows XP Home Edition is definitively the most user-friendly version of Windows ever created. While the beta versions of Home Edition left the multiple-monitor support introduced by Windows 98 out (something that has since become a fairly common graphics card feature), Microsoft did add the feature back into the final release. Most of the features found in Professional but not in Home Edition are academic to gamers (robust file encryption, increased laptop and mobile platform support, additional administrative tools, and so on). If you've splurged for a dual CPU setup, you'll need XP Professional to get the most out of it. Gamers will find everything they need in the less expensive consumer version, but there's one exception: Home Edition does not support multiple-processor systems. Microsoft will initially make two versions available, Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. While a clean install reduces the chance of any software incompatibilities cropping up, the upgrade option does run your system through a compatibility test and transfers over most programs and settings. It goes in with zero fuss on a clean hard drive, and our experiences were equally smooth in upgrading both a Windows 98 SE installation and a very heavily used Windows 2000 system. We didn't experience a single glitch installing it on three different test systems. The migration path to Windows XP couldn't be simpler. The combination of stability and game compatibility will, for a great many users, make it worth the upgrade from Windows 98 or Me. And Windows XP has come a long way since the beta that we put to the test in our June Windows XP preview. It does have new features that really matter, it is easy to use, and it's all but impossible to crash. In combining the power of a Windows NT core with the polish of a consumer OS, Windows XP is the most compelling overhaul of Windows we've seen in a while. But there's rarely much incentive to rush out and upgrade the OS on a system that runs well. Every step in Windows' evolution from 95 to Me has seen new claims that the operating system is easier than ever to use and the new features are absolutely indispensable. Pros: Remarkable stability, robust multiprocessing and networking, solid gaming performance, better compatibility with consumer products than Windows 2000.Ĭons: Games without Windows 2000 support may not run, some recent products won't initially have XP support, strict antipiracy activation process.Įvery few years, Microsoft unleashes its latest version of Windows amid a marketing blitz that desperately tries to convince business professionals, IT administrators, home users, and PC enthusiasts to drop everything and buy a copy.
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