Why I buy this one ?
- Brand new Full Retail box

What our customer's say!

"What I am using now.", As much as I like Vista, and I do have Vista-64 on my media computer, I still like using XP-Pro on my work computer. It is solid as a concrete highway without fast running water under it (in other-words, it does have its vulnerabilities), but far better than any other windows product out there.

"Ripped off", The version of the software was an OEM version that was only valid when installed on a new computer direct from the manufacturer. It required a volume licensing agreement which a stand alone user would not have.

Apparently this company was trying to pull a fast one. Don't buy anything from these people.

"What Can You Say, It's Microsoft", Review not necessary, outstanding product. If you are running Home Edition, I would recommend upgrading to XP Pro, if you can afford it.

"Do not buy this -- Remote Desktop is buggy in this version", I bought this upgrade specifically to use remote desktop -- however it does not work. There are many reports on the web re. Remote desktop black/blank screen no login dialog box.
I have used remote desktop on other machines & connections without problem but there is clearly a problem with many connections using the version in WindowsXP sp2. Microsoft has not acknowledged the problem, produced a KB article or a fix for this yet. My suggestion is to avoid this until at least XP sp3 is issued. Concensus seems to think this is due to a poorly designed/implemented remote desktop protocol -- apparently it does not handle fragmented packets.
[Some have found changing the MTU size from 1500 to 1400 using a third party tool fixes it for them. However this did not work for me.]

"I'll have to agree with 'A Kids Review'", Microsoft has been with the technology market for quite sometime, successfully locking technologies, while trying to also successfully create a good, easy to use, compatible, reliable, and secure operating system. Microsoft has gotten to such a point as the years planning, production, and programming of 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Home, XP Professional, 2003 Server have gone by.

Microsoft has failed. It's that simple. After a grueling week of working on a small business network of various versions of windows including 2000, 98, and XP, I'm tired of background viruses, I'm tired of hidden malware, I'm tired of worm/trojans and worm/malware... yes, I'm that tired of it. While Microsoft excels at easy compatibility with hardware and walk-in store software(atleast until Longhorn~'compatabilities problems commence!' ~but hey, it's Microsoft, we expect random odd things to go wrong with our computers now and then), Microsoft drops security out the window. Or, perhaps I should say out the Windows. It's not that it won't play the coolest games, and It's certainly not that you can't be productive on it, it's just that it does not make any sense to need a technician to increase you're security on the installation of an operating system! That's crazy... but that's microsoft. Technicians should be spending their time making things work, such as hardware with the operating system, or network issues. Instead, we're all fighting a malware war and finally giving up and making our own primary home operating systems BSD(Unix-NetBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD) or Linux(SuSE,Slackware,Red Hat,Knoppix) while not telling our customers. Our customers don't know what it's like to use a system that doesn't get viruses on a user level, and we all have receding hairlines because of it.

However, if you insist on using Windows, buy Windows XP 'Pocket Reference' from O'Reilly and get out you're install disks. Reformat that drive right away and re-install Windows all the while making sure your LAN cables and modem cables are fully unplugged from you're computer. Then, open you're book to pages 175 to 181, and read thoroughly. Do everything it tells you verbatim. Make sure you have less than 10 doors open(also known as ports). After doing all that, and checking your ports, and fixing the various issues, connect to the internet, and proceed to download the 17 billion gigs of 'security' updates over a course of a possible 4 or 5 reboots. Now, if you did all that, you finally have a tolerable operating system. Sure, it'll still get viruses, but at least everybody and their dog won't know all the information in your computer through on a few thousand doors on your computer because of the 23 trojans that Internet Explorer picked up in 5 hours of surfing the web.

Using Mozilla Firefox 1.04 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 instead of Internet Explorer and a Microsoft Email client on a daily level will lessen your security risk by mountains. Avoiding using Yahoo Chat and MSN Chat will also. Try Gaim... it's still compromisable, sure, but since it's multi-protocol, if you drop it, you can kill all chat processes.

If you go Mac.. you're going Unix whether you realize it or not, and if you keep you're current hardware, you can go AllLinuxCD.com and pick a BSD for 4 bucks. Before you do that, feel free to buy Knoppix Hacks by O'Reilly, and use the bootable CD in the back of the book to work in Knoppix daily without altering you're current system. Then, when you're comfortable with it, know that Linux and UNIX have a lot of similarities, so whether you go BSD or Linux, you'll see much of the same things you'll see in you're Knoppix CD.

I do hope this review was helpful to some of you. It's not that I don't like compatability... it's the hassle that windows has caused me over the years... or that malware has, I suppose. Good Luck to you all.

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"Excellent operating system", After finding out that Linux does NOT and has NO functionality to speak of. I purchased XP-Pro upgrade. To sum it all up, one word - AWESOME! Do yourself a favor and try this, it is plug and play to the extreme, is fast booting up and tons of applications available. Also purchased was Office 2003 Professional, the email client OUTLOOK is the best to date.

Overall, you cannot go wrong with Windows XP-Pro.

"THERE SHOULD E A NEGATIVE RATING ALLOWED", Where to begin with this tumerous mound of bloated software? In the beginning (before all the security problems were found - and continue, sometimes several times a day) XP home ran well. Now, no doubt, large chunks of code have been patched, re-patched and entirely replaced.

The result is this rotting pile of dung that goes sooooo slowly.

Unlike other notorious monopolists, Gates trumpets his great innovation.

(...). Each and every product of Microsoft is either a look back (often to Apple) or a buy-in. Each and every MS initiative (remember.NET?; remember XBOX?) has been a failure. Gates spends billions to produce technological failures.

XP is the most glaring example of this. Gates would do well to XPlode XP and start over.

"Very Stable OS.", Windows XP has been the best OS from Microsoft yet. It is not perfect, but it does not crash very often. I'm running XP on 3 computers that are networked. My laptops came with XP, but my desk top came with Windows 98, which was not very stable (it crashed daily). I tried using ME, but that was the worst operating system ever. Upgrading my older Compaq 667MH Celeron was very easy with XP. I downloaded a XP compatibility checker before installing XP to see what software and drivers were compatable. Downloaded the required updates and Windows XP installed very easy. XP is very easy when it comes to upgrading and installing new hardware.

I highly recommend a clean installation when upgrading. Saves a lot of headaches. Also beware that a lot of software that you use with 95,98,and ME are not compatible with XP. I also recommend having atleast 256MB RAM.

The reason I will not give Microsoft XP 5 Stars is that MS does not allow installation on more than one computer and having to activate the product. I'm buying the software to use as I need, not as Microsoft wants me to use it. That's like purchasing a Music CD and having to get a activation code and only being allowed to play on your home CD player. Are you listening MR. Gates????????????????????????????

"i think win suck", i give it one star become i have had win xp and wi me and 95 and up to now i cant stan it i ge ton lone on my old gateway and on my dad new hp and i get cut off and i am playing game and the comeputer cut me off so when i can get the money i am liveing win pc for good and go to apple i love apple ox so for me when i get my apple i will naver by a win pc

"Good Overall Operating System", Microsoft should be proud of its XP operating systems. XP is friendly and intuitive. If you need to get a home network up-and-running immediately, XP will show you how. It will even show you how to create a network to a 98 OS.
As with any other Microsoft application, XP is like a couch potato. It gets fatter and slower the older it gets. Some good clean-up applications are on the market that will help keep your XP OS lean and fast (Norton System Works), but as with people, XP does seem to get slower with age, even with a clean-up utility.