Differences Between Windows Versions

[SiMoNsAyS]

I've wondered a lot of times what are the differences between Windows XP Pro and Home, so I did a deep search. What I've found is that Pro has more security and network features (inlcuding a policy manager).

More information can be found:

• Differences between Pro, Home, Tablet and MCE
  
• Differences between Pro and Home
  
• Comparison between Pro and Home
  

Now that we know many differences more between Pro and Home and a little about Tablet and MCE I would like to go further.

Windows XP Pro vs. 64bit?

Microsoft is shipping a 64-bit version of Windows XP for Intel Itanium systems that mirrors the Professional Edition feature-set.

Windows XP Pro vs. Corp?

I think the only thing that differs is OOBE. Someone can confirm it?

Windows XP Pro vs. Server 2003?

I'm specially interested on this. Please I want to know more.

Edited November 3, 2004 by SiMoNsAyS

[Kenny McCormick]

Windows XP Professional, Retal and OEM needs activation and "Corp" dosn't.

Windows XP Professional is designed to run on workstations and Windows Server 2003 is desigend for servers.

[SiMoNsAyS]

Windows XP Professional is designed to run on workstations and Windows Server 2003 is desigend for servers.

that was what i supposed but something more concrete?

[CoffeeFiend]

There's lots of differences between 2003 and XP. Not just in features but also in their implementation.

IIS 6 is one major difference (IIS 5.1 is rather limited), LOTS of network services (DNS, DHCP...), media services, ... ... ie: server stuff. Not much if you just want a system to play games onto. (not my case at all) I mean, try using XP as a terminal server, Active Directory or even better, try running dcpromo on it

There's also major differences in what will run (reliably?) on them - even if it's not a "feature" per se, ie: the only edition of SQL server that will run on XP is the developper ed (not the enterprise version anyways), same goes for most server apps (like ISA server, exchange and such)

Their purposes and the way they are configured are rather different by default as well... Scalability isn't quite the same either. 2003 comes more "locked down" by default as well...

There are tons of differences, that was just off the top of my head Hope it clears things up a bit

[SiMoNsAyS]

@crahak, thanks for clarifying it