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Microsoft Windows XP Professional FULL VERSION with SP2
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List Price: $299.99
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- Automatically keep your PC up-to-date with the latest security enhancements including the Windows Security Center, Windows Firewall.
- Windows XP Professional provides rich, wireless network support, helping you simply and easily connect to wireless networks whether in your home, office, or out on the road.
- Quickly set up and connect all the computers, printers, devices, and an Internet connection in your home with the all new Network Setup Wizard.
- Encrypting File System provides an additional level of file protection from hackers and data theft by transparently encrypting files with a randomly generated key.
- Clean, simple design of Windows XP Professional puts the features you use most often at your fingertips, helping you find them quickly.
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Editorial Reviews:
Windows XP Pro is the ideal new solution for your business and advanced home computing needs. Service Packs round up the bug fixes and product updates you need for operating more smoothly. This Service Pack bridges the gaps between the original software and user requests more fully, responding to customer wishes -- and making XP even better. Security Center offers a central control system for your Windows XP security -- work with the firewalls, auto updates and antivirus tools Great news for people sick of pop-up ads - The built-in pop-up blocker controls them, with a new submenu and status bar icons New Add-Ons manager gives you instant access to all the Browser Helper Objects and extensions, enabling and disabling them easily Firewall now has its own control panel, for customizing firewall setting to suit any connection Enhancements to the Windows Update service make installing new updates easy -- you can even choose which ones to install Wireless Networking - Multiple wireless connections to choose from
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: rotten
Comment: I have not received my software. I have emailed the supplier twice and he has not responded at all. I sent Amazon an email detailing this and have not received a response from them either.
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Summary: Get XP Professional while you still can
Comment: Windows XP Professional is now a mature stable OS that I have become quite comfortable working with over the past 6 years. For a new PC recently built for my home office network I chose to stay with Windows XP Professional for compatibility with 2 other PCs running XP Pro, a network shared multi-function laser printer for which full function Vista drivers are not available, and potential issues with other older hardware and software.
Depending on the version, Vista offers some built in functionality not included in XP Pro, but Vista also requires higher end PC hardware than XP. Having some limited experience using Vista PCs, I have found no compelling reason to upgrade from XP, particularly considering potential Vista compatibility issues with older hardware and software used with my home office network and that all of my current hardware and software work perfectly fine with XP.
If you are upgrading to XP Pro from XP Home (or Win98, ME, 2000 or NT4) save some money and buy the XP Pro upgrade version. For those building a new PC wanting to stay with XP you can buy the OEM version for about half the cost of the full retail version. Buy the full retail version to have the flexibility to move it to a different PC in the future.
Microsoft stopped distributing XP for consumer purchase in July 2008 and currently plans to only offer XP Professional under limited conditions for OEM installation on new PCs until January 2009. I have read that Microsoft plans to support XP with critical updates until 2014. So I plan to skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 before seriously considering an operating system upgrade. For those planning to build or upgrade a PC with Windows XP, get it is while it is still available.
P.S. -- After trying MS Office 2007, I also bought a copy of MS Office Professional 2003 while still available.
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Summary: Windows XP Pro
Comment: Windows XP is not available through Microsoft- so I was thrilled to find a new box on Amazon.
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Summary: So much better than Vista
Comment: I ordered XP Pro in order to downgrade the OS on my recently purchased Toshiba Qosmio laptop . . .although Toshiba is not offering any help in this, I am still looking forward to dumping Vista once and for all in exchange for the XP Pro I am using on my other computers.
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Summary: Automatic Update Problem
Comment: Microsoft Windows XP functions very well, which balances out the one star rating--lowest possible--I would give its automatic update function. After downloading an update, it attempts to restart your computer and will do so if you don't tell it "Restart Later." Even if you do this, it will again attempt to restart your computer.
In other words, if you don't know this is happening and you fail to intervene, the automatic update will reboot your computer and destroy every single piece of work you were doing, perhaps hours of work if you are unlucky. This has been pointed out to Microsoft, but the problem has not been fixed.
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