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What can you do in XP......

That you couldn't in win2000pro? The things are subtle, but they are there and XP has become the defacto standard most secure, pre-Vista, most stable, pre-vista, most reliable, pre-vista, windows ever. Ever since Vista came out, many are having an XP love-a-thon.

But, truely, what does XP have that win2000pro doesn't?


And as with XP, there will simply be more support, inside and outside of Microsoft for Vista. There will be no more service packs for XP.


The usual stuff. But beyond that, and beyond the fact that for Home owners it's a no brainer -

Absolutely gorgeous UI that once you are used to, you will never go back.


Massively better security and solid software. Compare Vista patches since it came to, say, OS X, no comparison.


An evolution in stability and reliability. With far fewer dependencies has come an OS that is simply much more solid and dependable than any before it, from anyone. This is the OS itself, i'm not talking about faulty non compliant drivers and their effects. That goes for any OS, but even then it is rather graceful. no brainer reason for home user alone


Great Parental controls


Aero is far more than "eye candy". Anyone who can't appreciate a more vivid, effect capable and animated environment, in my opinion, is not being truthful or is trying really hard to dislike Vista. Aero is very cool and between myriad effects and 3D, there are applications in business and many fields, like the Imaging program that takes various radiology images of a patient from differnt sides, angles, and creates a rotating 3D look at the affected area for radiologists or physicians. But it is only limited by the imagination. If it weren't cool, FlashPlayer would have died an early death on the internet.


Killer new Audio subsystem


Performance self healing, self tuning. I can say the new performance, resource and reliability diagnostics are killer. You can pinpoint any problem hardware or software, over time and with a few clicks have a custom event viewer come up with only related entries. You can see what's happening during startup and shutdown in much more detail. The troubleshooting tools are a world beyond XP.


Built in Media Center that is worth the price of admission on it's own. World class software that any home user who discovers it, loves. And it's far better than prior media center.


It's faster at many things, like downloading data from the internet.


Instant search is awesome and apparently forgotten.


File preview. This is great. Especially when going through a folder of old Word documents or other text or compatible documents, that peek inside the file is priceless.


The dynamic breadcrumb address bar in windows explorer is too cool. If you've not found how much handier this is to use, which is a business related productivity enhancer as well, then you may not have discovered and are one of those people asking "Where's the up button in Vista??


Readyboost. Very cool and goes far beyond what you could do with XP.



Capable of twice the speed of XP on a windows server 2008 network. It's the future, ride the wave.


Home network setup is SO easy with the Network and Sharing Center


Windows movie maker.


File organization has new and better options.


Some of this has been for business too....such as far and away better reliability and many others


Bitlocker.


Very good new group policy controls, including the ability to control activeX deployment securely.


smb 2.0 support


Better and more networking tools.


incoming and outgoing firewall


IE runs in protected mode.


although office 2007 runs on XP, it integrates better with Vista and VS 2008 has many more Office project types.


Foundation classes, WPF and WCF.

WPF is obviously Vista only classes.


With Silverlight now in the development mix RIAs will become the norm.


As a network client, it is better than XP. Plain and simple. It's new search, organization and other file handling features along with much better GP control and networking tools, it will be the defacto standard.


So again, if you think XP is somehow better than win2000pro, then you'll see a massive difference between XP and Vista.


The people using it are very happy with it after getting used to it..they love it. And IT is very happy with it. The tools for the pc tech are way ahead of XP. The tools for the network admin are way ahead of XP.

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