XP+Versions+a+small+explanation+of

XP Versions a small explanation of

Windows XP comes in several different Editions / Versions.

The primary ones marketed in the U.S. are Home Edition, Professional Edition, Tablet PC

Edition and Media Centre Edition.

Dell and other hardware vendors are selling high‐end systems with XP Media Centre

Edition (MCE) installed.

These systems are designed to function as entertainment machines that can store and play your digital music and videos, and perhaps most notably, hook up to your television set to allow you to pause live TV and record and play back your favourite programs like a TiVO.

However, the MCE operating system is a superset of Windows XP Pro.

That means it has everything Pro has (and more) and you can do anything with it that you can do with a computer that has Pro installed.

If you donʹt want to use the Media Centre features, you could certainly wipe the disk and install Pro ‐ but thereʹs no need to do so.

Just disable the media centre services to increase performance and use the computer as you would any XP Pro machine.

To confuse the issue further XP itself has been issued in several updated versions since the first issue.

Microsoft has not even bothered to explain this nor apologise to people who cannot dothings with their version that their friends can.

They seem to have forgotten the expression that the customer is always right, and attempt to get new customers and ignore excising ones, hence for example one of the reasons for the success of Linux.