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Windows XP
Professional
The features in the table below illustrate why the Windows XP Professional operating system is the best choice for businesses of all sizes. Windows XP Professional integrates the strengths of Windows 2000 Professional, such as standards-based security, manageability, and reliability, with the best business features of Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition, such as Plug and Play, simplified user interface, and innovative support services. This combination creates the best desktop operating system for business. Whether your business deploys Windows XP Professional on a single computer or throughout a worldwide network, this new operating system increases your computing power while lowering cost of ownership for desktop computers. |
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Windows 2000
Professional
Windows 2000 Professional, released on February 17, 2000, is the latest Microsoft operating system. It is intended by Microsoft to be the successor to Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. Windows 2000 Professional is not intended as a direct replacement for Windows 98 - Microsoft plans to release an update to Windows 98, called Windows Millennium Edition, this year. Information Systems & Computing (ISC) will support Windows 2000 Professional for its clients, including off-campus students, only on new Intel-based PCs that ship with Windows 2000 Professional pre-installed. ISC strongly recommends that all other users adopt a "wait and see" attitude, continuing to use previous versions of Windows until after the initial bugs in Windows 2000 Professional are identified and fixed. |
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Most noticeable was that both the workstation and server editions of Windows NT 4.0 had gained the user interface of Windows 95, including the Windows Shell, Windows Explorer (known as Windows NT Explorer), and the use of "My" nomenclature (e.g. My Documents).The server editions of Windows NT 4.0 include a built-in web server, Internet Information Services version 2.0. It also natively supported plugins and extensions of Microsoft FrontPage, a web site creation and management application.Other important features included with this release were Microsoft Transaction Server for network applications, and Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), which improved communication.One significant change from previous versions of Windows NT was that the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) was incorporated into the kernel[2] to speed up the Graphical user interface (GUI), which resulted in a significant performance improvement over Windows NT 3.51, but also created the requirement to have graphics drivers located in the kernel, resulting in potential stability issues.One drawback to Windows NT 4.0 was its lack of support for Direct3D. This however was resolved in all future releases of the NT family such as Windows 2000. Windows NT 4.0 also did not support USB, but that was also fixed with the release of Windows 2000. Third party utilities also exist that provide DirectX and USB support within Windows NT 4.0. |
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