XP Home based on Win ME but XP Pro based on NT ?

On 2 Apr 2003 00:18:20 -0800, (Paul Williams)
wrote:

Hi,

I've been told that XP Home is based on Windows ME (and as such is not
very good), whereas XP Pro is based on Windows NT and is much better
in terms of stability etc.

However, I was under the impression that XP Home was just a cut down
version of XP Pro with less features. I also assumed that it was a bit
of an attempt by Microsoft to position each prodcut in the market.

Anybody got any comments on this?

Yes. Whoever told you this is an idiot.

On 2 Apr 2003 00:18:20 -0800, (Paul Williams)
wrote:

Hi,

I've been told that XP Home is based on Windows ME (and as such is not
very good), whereas XP Pro is based on Windows NT and is much better
in terms of stability etc.

However, I was under the impression that XP Home was just a cut down
version of XP Pro with less features. I also assumed that it was a bit
of an attempt by Microsoft to position each prodcut in the market.

Anybody got any comments on this?

Yes. Whoever told you this is an idiot.

yawn.....

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore the

You are blind my friend.
How can I make a blind man see. ?





"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote in message
...
I read this post and figured it was an attempt at sarcastic humor. Then
I
read the responses and discovered "Bil" was serious. A heavy sigh is the
most emotion I can generate for this poor fellow. To anyone reading
"Bil's"
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore
the
post. For anyone who has to drive in "Bil's" neighborhood we will say a
prayer for you and hope he spent more time learning the rules of the
road
than he did learning to work Windows.

D

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

yawn.....

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore the

You are blind my friend.
How can I make a blind man see. ?





"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote in message
...
I read this post and figured it was an attempt at sarcastic humor. Then
I
read the responses and discovered "Bil" was serious. A heavy sigh is the
most emotion I can generate for this poor fellow. To anyone reading
"Bil's"
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore
the
post. For anyone who has to drive in "Bil's" neighborhood we will say a
prayer for you and hope he spent more time learning the rules of the
road
than he did learning to work Windows.

D

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

You could, of course, go to Walmart and purchase a PC that comes with Linux.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"JimC" wrote in message
...

Your contempt for "another one who doesn't follow MS instructions," and
your
lack of empathy are less than admirable. Your "follow MS instructions"
sounds a lot like "follow Saddam's instructions!" Most folks don't ask
for
XP help because they selected XP of their own free will. For new PC
systems, XP is shoved down everyone's throat by the Redmond regime's
stranglehold on the OEMs. A new Dell or Gatweay machine comes with
Microsoft product EULAs that provide users with fewer rights and less
protection than most terrorists enjoy.

--Jim

You could, of course, go to Walmart and purchase a PC that comes with Linux.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"JimC" wrote in message
...

Your contempt for "another one who doesn't follow MS instructions," and
your
lack of empathy are less than admirable. Your "follow MS instructions"
sounds a lot like "follow Saddam's instructions!" Most folks don't ask
for
XP help because they selected XP of their own free will. For new PC
systems, XP is shoved down everyone's throat by the Redmond regime's
stranglehold on the OEMs. A new Dell or Gatweay machine comes with
Microsoft product EULAs that provide users with fewer rights and less
protection than most terrorists enjoy.

--Jim

Xref: 127.0.0.1 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:536828 microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics:99127 microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers:70380

His posts are not painful to ignore! They are a pleasure to ignore. What do
you expect of someone so immature, emotional and lacking common sense?
"Michael Stevens" wrote in message
...
Bil Gates ******* wrote:
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Yes, both home and pro belong to the NT family.
Something MS never wanted to do, but they can't
make money from support if they make it easy,
so they decided to nail those customers that made
them to be the richest company in the world.
Gates have enough money to last his family
hundred of years, but he is trying to buy heaven now,
so he can nail his customers after he dies.

MS now doesn't care whether you are a happy customer
or not, and they don't care if you never bought from them
ever again, because they can make money by nailing
others, wasting their time and money, try to impress
them with their worthless over engineered programs.

Yes, it is more stable, but sometimes it dogs it,
and can't be restored. You simply have to install
clean when it does, it doesn't even reinstall on top
the old install, because the stupid thing asks for
Administrator password but it can't recognize it.

To find your mail files, you have to dig for them
10 folders deep, in a weird very long directory name.
Scew your mail box he says, you don't need to find it.

If you don't know how to secure and configure XP,
then every body on the internet can access your computer,
play with your files and do as they please.

What also worse, for the littlest problem, the computer
shuts down. Who is the stupid person that thought
shutting the computer down in the middle of your
work is a great idea.
Works perfect with MS Office, that thing never ran
right from day one, getting errors with office is a very
common thing, if you don't save your work, then you are
going to loose your work when the computer shuts down.

MS never made a good running product, they always
do something new, with more bugs, tougher bugs,
and harder to use.
Look back in their history, from DOS days until
today, non of the products they made was at least
reasonable.

I use to help people run their computer, I don't
do it no more, XP has so many bugs is unbelievable,
they make you a service pack, and the darn thing
fixes some bugs but adds big new bugs. So you
would call MS and pay for support. Not as cheap
as Win95, because this is serious NT support.
Their support are a bunch of ignorant idiots.
In the past they had mediocre support, now they
have stupid ignorant agencies doing their support.






BGB,
May I suggest you abandon your normal male penchant for not reading the
manual and actually learn what you are talking about. If you find using XP
unfriendly, you have some serious learning disorders. Every example you
gave
was a smoking gun pointing out how ill informed you are. Maybe it is just
the accelerated pace of technology that has you confused. Do you also find
programming your DVD or VCR player a challenge? Maybe that remote with the
ability to control more than one device is the same frustration. I see
your
frequent posts, and usually just shake my head in amusement. But I am
beginning to feel sorry for you, either you are a pre-teen with serious
lack
of parental supervision, or an ill informed adult. In either case your
posts
are getting painful to ignore. Where in the computer owners manual does it
say this computer was expressly built for stupid ill informed people that
refuse to learn how to use them?
BTW From your recent posts, you are probably doing people a favor not
offering your help.
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP

http://michaelstevenstech.com

Xref: 127.0.0.1 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:536828 microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics:99127 microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers:70380

His posts are not painful to ignore! They are a pleasure to ignore. What do
you expect of someone so immature, emotional and lacking common sense?
"Michael Stevens" wrote in message
...
Bil Gates ******* wrote:
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Yes, both home and pro belong to the NT family.
Something MS never wanted to do, but they can't
make money from support if they make it easy,
so they decided to nail those customers that made
them to be the richest company in the world.
Gates have enough money to last his family
hundred of years, but he is trying to buy heaven now,
so he can nail his customers after he dies.

MS now doesn't care whether you are a happy customer
or not, and they don't care if you never bought from them
ever again, because they can make money by nailing
others, wasting their time and money, try to impress
them with their worthless over engineered programs.

Yes, it is more stable, but sometimes it dogs it,
and can't be restored. You simply have to install
clean when it does, it doesn't even reinstall on top
the old install, because the stupid thing asks for
Administrator password but it can't recognize it.

To find your mail files, you have to dig for them
10 folders deep, in a weird very long directory name.
Scew your mail box he says, you don't need to find it.

If you don't know how to secure and configure XP,
then every body on the internet can access your computer,
play with your files and do as they please.

What also worse, for the littlest problem, the computer
shuts down. Who is the stupid person that thought
shutting the computer down in the middle of your
work is a great idea.
Works perfect with MS Office, that thing never ran
right from day one, getting errors with office is a very
common thing, if you don't save your work, then you are
going to loose your work when the computer shuts down.

MS never made a good running product, they always
do something new, with more bugs, tougher bugs,
and harder to use.
Look back in their history, from DOS days until
today, non of the products they made was at least
reasonable.

I use to help people run their computer, I don't
do it no more, XP has so many bugs is unbelievable,
they make you a service pack, and the darn thing
fixes some bugs but adds big new bugs. So you
would call MS and pay for support. Not as cheap
as Win95, because this is serious NT support.
Their support are a bunch of ignorant idiots.
In the past they had mediocre support, now they
have stupid ignorant agencies doing their support.






BGB,
May I suggest you abandon your normal male penchant for not reading the
manual and actually learn what you are talking about. If you find using XP
unfriendly, you have some serious learning disorders. Every example you
gave
was a smoking gun pointing out how ill informed you are. Maybe it is just
the accelerated pace of technology that has you confused. Do you also find
programming your DVD or VCR player a challenge? Maybe that remote with the
ability to control more than one device is the same frustration. I see
your
frequent posts, and usually just shake my head in amusement. But I am
beginning to feel sorry for you, either you are a pre-teen with serious
lack
of parental supervision, or an ill informed adult. In either case your
posts
are getting painful to ignore. Where in the computer owners manual does it
say this computer was expressly built for stupid ill informed people that
refuse to learn how to use them?
BTW From your recent posts, you are probably doing people a favor not
offering your help.
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP

http://michaelstevenstech.com

I think it is not possible to make YOU see, however, why don't you get a
mirror, look into it and ask the person you see why he's such an ass?
"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore the

You are blind my friend.
How can I make a blind man see. ?





"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote in message
...
I read this post and figured it was an attempt at sarcastic humor. Then
I
read the responses and discovered "Bil" was serious. A heavy sigh is the
most emotion I can generate for this poor fellow. To anyone reading
"Bil's"
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore
the
post. For anyone who has to drive in "Bil's" neighborhood we will say a
prayer for you and hope he spent more time learning the rules of the
road
than he did learning to work Windows.

D

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Yes, both home and pro belong to the NT family.
Something MS never wanted to do, but they can't
make money from support if they make it easy,
so they decided to nail those customers that made
them to be the richest company in the world.
Gates have enough money to last his family
hundred of years, but he is trying to buy heaven now,
so he can nail his customers after he dies.

MS now doesn't care whether you are a happy customer
or not, and they don't care if you never bought from them
ever again, because they can make money by nailing
others, wasting their time and money, try to impress
them with their worthless over engineered programs.

Yes, it is more stable, but sometimes it dogs it,
and can't be restored. You simply have to install
clean when it does, it doesn't even reinstall on top
the old install, because the stupid thing asks for
Administrator password but it can't recognize it.

To find your mail files, you have to dig for them
10 folders deep, in a weird very long directory name.
Scew your mail box he says, you don't need to find it.

If you don't know how to secure and configure XP,
then every body on the internet can access your computer,
play with your files and do as they please.

What also worse, for the littlest problem, the computer
shuts down. Who is the stupid person that thought
shutting the computer down in the middle of your
work is a great idea.
Works perfect with MS Office, that thing never ran
right from day one, getting errors with office is a very
common thing, if you don't save your work, then you are
going to loose your work when the computer shuts down.

MS never made a good running product, they always
do something new, with more bugs, tougher bugs,
and harder to use.
Look back in their history, from DOS days until
today, non of the products they made was at least
reasonable.

I use to help people run their computer, I don't
do it no more, XP has so many bugs is unbelievable,
they make you a service pack, and the darn thing
fixes some bugs but adds big new bugs. So you
would call MS and pay for support. Not as cheap
as Win95, because this is serious NT support.
Their support are a bunch of ignorant idiots.
In the past they had mediocre support, now they
have stupid ignorant agencies doing their support.






"Paul Williams" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I've been told that XP Home is based on Windows ME (and as such is
not
very good), whereas XP Pro is based on Windows NT and is much better
in terms of stability etc.

However, I was under the impression that XP Home was just a cut down
version of XP Pro with less features. I also assumed that it was a
bit
of an attempt by Microsoft to position each prodcut in the market.

Anybody got any comments on this?

I think it is not possible to make YOU see, however, why don't you get a
mirror, look into it and ask the person you see why he's such an ass?
"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore the

You are blind my friend.
How can I make a blind man see. ?





"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote in message
...
I read this post and figured it was an attempt at sarcastic humor. Then
I
read the responses and discovered "Bil" was serious. A heavy sigh is the
most emotion I can generate for this poor fellow. To anyone reading
"Bil's"
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just ignore
the
post. For anyone who has to drive in "Bil's" neighborhood we will say a
prayer for you and hope he spent more time learning the rules of the
road
than he did learning to work Windows.

D

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Yes, both home and pro belong to the NT family.
Something MS never wanted to do, but they can't
make money from support if they make it easy,
so they decided to nail those customers that made
them to be the richest company in the world.
Gates have enough money to last his family
hundred of years, but he is trying to buy heaven now,
so he can nail his customers after he dies.

MS now doesn't care whether you are a happy customer
or not, and they don't care if you never bought from them
ever again, because they can make money by nailing
others, wasting their time and money, try to impress
them with their worthless over engineered programs.

Yes, it is more stable, but sometimes it dogs it,
and can't be restored. You simply have to install
clean when it does, it doesn't even reinstall on top
the old install, because the stupid thing asks for
Administrator password but it can't recognize it.

To find your mail files, you have to dig for them
10 folders deep, in a weird very long directory name.
Scew your mail box he says, you don't need to find it.

If you don't know how to secure and configure XP,
then every body on the internet can access your computer,
play with your files and do as they please.

What also worse, for the littlest problem, the computer
shuts down. Who is the stupid person that thought
shutting the computer down in the middle of your
work is a great idea.
Works perfect with MS Office, that thing never ran
right from day one, getting errors with office is a very
common thing, if you don't save your work, then you are
going to loose your work when the computer shuts down.

MS never made a good running product, they always
do something new, with more bugs, tougher bugs,
and harder to use.
Look back in their history, from DOS days until
today, non of the products they made was at least
reasonable.

I use to help people run their computer, I don't
do it no more, XP has so many bugs is unbelievable,
they make you a service pack, and the darn thing
fixes some bugs but adds big new bugs. So you
would call MS and pay for support. Not as cheap
as Win95, because this is serious NT support.
Their support are a bunch of ignorant idiots.
In the past they had mediocre support, now they
have stupid ignorant agencies doing their support.






"Paul Williams" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I've been told that XP Home is based on Windows ME (and as such is
not
very good), whereas XP Pro is based on Windows NT and is much better
in terms of stability etc.

However, I was under the impression that XP Home was just a cut down
version of XP Pro with less features. I also assumed that it was a
bit
of an attempt by Microsoft to position each prodcut in the market.

Anybody got any comments on this?

Me too.
BGB (well he got the list part of his name right) is a typical example of
know-all BS - or more likely trolling?
--
johnf

HillBillyBuddhist wrote:
yawn.....

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just
ignore the

You are blind my friend.
How can I make a blind man see. ?





"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote in message
...
I read this post and figured it was an attempt at sarcastic humor.
Then
I
read the responses and discovered "Bil" was serious. A heavy sigh
is the most emotion I can generate for this poor fellow. To anyone
reading
"Bil's"
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just
ignore
the
post. For anyone who has to drive in "Bil's" neighborhood we will
say a prayer for you and hope he spent more time learning the rules
of the
road
than he did learning to work Windows.

D

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Me too.
BGB (well he got the list part of his name right) is a typical example of
know-all BS - or more likely trolling?
--
johnf

HillBillyBuddhist wrote:
yawn.....

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just
ignore the

You are blind my friend.
How can I make a blind man see. ?





"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote in message
...
I read this post and figured it was an attempt at sarcastic humor.
Then
I
read the responses and discovered "Bil" was serious. A heavy sigh
is the most emotion I can generate for this poor fellow. To anyone
reading
"Bil's"
misguided rant who is new to XP or thinking of getting it just
ignore
the
post. For anyone who has to drive in "Bil's" neighborhood we will
say a prayer for you and hope he spent more time learning the rules
of the
road
than he did learning to work Windows.

D

"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Greetings --

And here I was wishing they'd stop "dumbing down" the Windows
interface and allow me more granular control of processes and
resources. It's a real pita to get past all of the GUI "aids" to get
to the nuts & bolts of the computer's operation. ;-}


Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
----
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH


"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Snipped....

Greetings --

And here I was wishing they'd stop "dumbing down" the Windows
interface and allow me more granular control of processes and
resources. It's a real pita to get past all of the GUI "aids" to get
to the nuts & bolts of the computer's operation. ;-}


Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
----
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH


"Bil Gates *******" wrote in message
...
The most unfriendly operating system for the novice user.
You have to be a professional user, to run both home and pro.

Snipped....